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    14    Icy Mountains Constantly Walking      1:07
    15    For Philip Zenshin Whalen      1:07
    16    For Carole      0:41
    17    Steady, They Say      0:47
    PART V   D UST IN THE W IND
    18    Gray Squirrel      0:43
    19    One Day in Late Summer      1:14
    20    Spilling the Wind      0:53
    21    California Laurel      0:59
    22    Baking Bread      1:06
    23    One Empty Bus      2:15
    24    No Shadow      1:57
    25    Shandel      1:59
    26    Night Herons      1:50
    27    The Acropolis Back When      3:01
    28    The Emu      3:34
    29    The Hie Shrine . . .      2:44
    30    Cormorants      2:08
    31    To Go      1:36
    32    One Thousand Cranes      4:57
    33    For Anthea Corinne Snyder Lowry      0:58
    34    The Great Bell of the Gion      2:45
    PART VI   A FTER B AMIYAN
    35    After Bamiyan      4:35
    36    Loose on Earth      1:07
    37    Falling from a Height, . . .      0:38
    38    Senso-ji      3:05
    39    Envoy      1:12

    Gary Snyder was recorded reading
Danger On Peaks
by Jack Loeffler in Loeffler’s home in northern New Mexico on November 14 and 15, 2013. Loeffler, who edited and mastered these recordings in his studio, maintains that listening to Snyder read his poetry as one follows along in the book profoundly enhances one’s appreciation of the author’s work.

G ARY S NYDER is the author of 16 collections of poetry and prose. Since 1970 he has lived in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and a finalist for the National Book Award in 1992, he has been awarded the Bollingen Poetry Prize and the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award.