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Gary Snyder brand pine nuts ... as eaten in Turtle Island
- Title
- Gary Snyder brand pine nuts ... as eaten in Turtle Island / Gary Snyder.
- Author
- Snyder, Gary, 1930-
- Publication
- San Francisco: Zephyrus Image, 1975]
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Artifact | Permit needed | Berg Coll Snyder ZA2 Z47 1975 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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- Description
- [1] bag of nuts: illustrations; 17 x 11 cm
- Summary
- Tan card-stock label folded to 10.1 cm x 5. 7 cm, the front with facsimile trademark Snyder signature and registered mark by Michael Myers in blue; front label background in red with reverse lettering, motto in green; verso with recipe in grey with two ornaments in red; stapled to a clear polythene bag, approx. 10 x 17.1 cm., containing two nuts.
- Largely distributed in guerrilla actions ; they were placed in San Francisco’s Geary-Boulevard convenience stores and sold for 25 cents each.
- Rare survival in this state.
- Some packages contained fragments of peyote.
- Parody of poet Gary Snyder’s Zen consciousness, back-to-nature philosophy, and valorization of Native American culture.
- Subjects
- Note
- Gary Snyder won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his book of poetry Turtle Island.
- Designed by Michael Myers.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access ;
- Call Number
- Berg Coll Snyder ZA2 Z47 1975
- OCLC
- 28167439
- Author
- Snyder, Gary, 1930-
- Title
- Gary Snyder brand pine nuts ... as eaten in Turtle Island / Gary Snyder.
- Imprint
- San Francisco: Zephyrus Image, 1975]
- Access
- Restricted access ; request permission in holding division.
- Local Note
- Berg Collection copy formerly owned by Holbrook Teter (d. 1999), a Zephyrus Image printer, Bay-Area social worker and community activist.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Myers, Michael.Teter, Holbrook.}4fmo.
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll Snyder ZA2 Z47 1975