Copyright © 1960, 1978 by Gary Snyder

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Some of the poems in this book first appeared in Ark, Black Mountain Review, Bussei, The Fifties, Galley Sail Review, Jabberwock, The Needle, Poems & Pictures, and Yugen.

 

Myths & Texts was originally published in 1960 by Totem Press in association with Corinth Books and is reissued by special arrangement with the latter.

First published clothbound and as New Directions Paperbook 457 in 1978

Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Snyder, Gary.

Myths & texts.

(A New Directions Book)

I. Title.

PS3569.N88M9      1978            811’.5’4            77—25378

eISBN 978-0-8112-2281-5

 

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