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This evening would be special regardless of what the occasion is in having Counterpoint Press editor Jack Shoemaker here to talk. His own pathway through books and publishing is unique and vital in terms of the literary and cultural landscape of the past forty years. From North Point Press' founding in 1980, on through a course that's included a stint with Pantheon, an earlier iteration of Counterpoint, Shoemaker amp; Hoard, and now Counterpoint Press, he has championed and published the work of many, from Beryl Markham and M.F.K. Fisher to Anne Lamott, Wendell Berry, Guy Davenport, Evan Connell, Nanao Sakaki, and more, including others in this region—Robert Sund, Ann Pancake, Peter Lewis, Robert Bringhurst, and Valerie Trueblood (see November 16). No one is more identified with these books or aesthetic than poet, essayist, sage Gary Snyder. Now in his 81st year, Gary Snyder, child of a stump farm in Lake City, is being celebrated in various publication ways this year. Counterpoint has reissued his first book of poems, Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, and a twentieth-anniversary reissue, with a new foreword, of one of Snyder's major prose word, The Practice of the Wild. Central to all is the new book, The Etiquette of Freedom (edited by Paul Ebenkamp), a beautiful, engaging book of conversation—most notably and companionably with Jim Harrison—commentary, poems, and photographs. It includes a DVD of the John J. Healey documentary The Practice of the Wild: A Conversation with Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison, itself a visually arresting companion to the book. This evening is expected to include a screening of the film, then will allow for Jack Shoemaker to talk and field questions.
