Enter the mind of American poet and scholar Gary Snyder and watch as time pulls back, perspectives shift and an epoch passes in a single blink. His newest book of prose, "The Great Clod," is a series of essays on Asia's ecological history, combining culture and politics in a way that is, unsurprisingly, poetic and graceful.

The Great Clod, by Gary Snyder
208 pages
Counterpoint, Fiction.