Snyder, the octogenarian, Western, Zen, Pulitzer Prize (1974) winning poet scores big time with this slim volume of beautiful poems ranging from Go Now, the final poem in the volume which is a long good-by to his dead wife to A Letter to M.A. which is clearly a response to a young reader’s letter.  Snyder’s feel for the Western desert, Tahoe, and the wide-open expanses of the country is clear, his combination with Japanese art, poetry, and religion, and his effortless shifting from Paris (the Eiffel tower), to Korea, to Florence (David) is very effective.  This is a lovely volume to re-read one day.  “The present moment/that lives on/to become/long ago.”