paperback, 11.5 x 9, 128 pages, with 23 full-color woodcuts and b&w illustrations throughout
ISBN: 978-1-890771-99-7
$24.95
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paperback, 11.5 x 9, 128 pages, with 23 full-color woodcuts and b&w illustrations throughout ISBN: 978-1-890771-99-7 $24.95 The High Sierra of California
Poems and Journals of Gary Snyder; Woodcuts by Tom Killion
A glorious artist tribute to the Range of Light The High Sierra of California is a brilliant tribute to the bold, jagged peaks that have inspired generations of naturalists, artists, and writers. Using traditional Japanese and European woodcut techniques, Killion has created stunning visual images of the Sierra that focus on the backcountry above nine thousand feet, accessible only on foot. Accompanying these riveting images are the journals of Gary Snyder, chronicling more than forty years of travels through the High Sierra backcountry. Published in conjunction with the Yosemite Association Reviews "For a fibrillatingly lovely look at the High Sierra, that corner of the state that stays the same while all the rest of California convulses, the book to get this year is Tom Killion and Gary Snyder's art book, The High Sierra of California. ...It is to other coffee-table books what Jamaican Blue Mountain is to other coffee."—David Kipen, San Francisco Chronicle "Sometimes stately and solemn, sometimes mysterious and mystical, sometimes rollicking and even slightly ribald—[these prints] are the visual equivalent of Snyder's poetry and the real glory of the book."—Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review Awards Winner of the California Book Award Medal 
About the Authors Gary Snyder has published sixteen books of poetry and prose, including The Gary Snyder Reader (1952–1998) and Turtle Island, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Among his many awards are the Bollingen Prize and the Shelley Memorial Award. He is a professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Davis. 
Tom Killion, founder of The Quail Press, is a California-born woodcut and letterpress artist. His extensively illustrated books include 28 Views of Mount Tamalpais, The Coast of California, and Walls: A Journey Across Three Continents. You can find out more about his artwork at www.tomkillion.com. |
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