How to Live on the Planet Earth: A Celebration of Nanao Sakaki
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 5:00 pm
An all-star lineup of poets -- Gary Snyder, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, Malcolm Margolin and Gary Lawless -- with guest MC Patricia Wakida reads in celebration of the late Nanao Sakaki's new publication, How to Live on the Planet Earth: Collected Poems (Blackberry Books). Lawless edited the book, and Snyder wrote the forward. Free to $20.
Location:
McRoskey Mattress Company, 1687 Market Street, San Francisco
Directions:
Sponsor:
The Poetry Center and the Green Arcade
Contact:
SF State Box Office
Phone:
415-338-2467
Event extras:
Nanao Sakaki (1923–2008) grew up in Japan, served in the Japanese Army during World War II and later became known as a poet and friend to American poets, environmentalist and counterculture leader. He was a founder of the Tribe and Banyan Ashram. Gary Snyder describes Sakaki as “a uniquely free and bold-spirited wanderer, occasional river or mountain activist, singer and chanter and internationally published poet.”
Let’s Eat Stars and Break the Mirror are Sakaki’s best known collections.