Interact: Jim McDonald's Reviews

After a lengthy pause, this is a new offering of poetry from Gary Snyder. Snyder is an inspiration for many groups - he started off being included in the beat generation, has associated with the Black Mountain poets, was a backwoodsman, fire look-out, a rallying point for the early environmental...

The media in the UK have never embraced Jack Kerouac fully, and a large part of this is because they read only 'On The Road' and do not investigate his writing further. 'The Dharma Bums' is a better book - it has more depth, is better crafted, and more inspiring to read. A common criticism of 'On...