HW for April 22: Linda Hogan's texts in dialogue with Gary Synder's "Walking"

 In the essay “Unnatural Writing,” Gary Snyder proposes a few topics for a “New Nature Poetics.” Consider the following recommendation for an “art of the wild” — “That it study mind and language—language as wild system, mind as wild habitat, world as a ‘making’ (poem), poem as a creature of the wild mind” (p. 172, essay / p. 127 course anthology).

How can we relate Snyder’s invitation with Linda Hogan’s assertion in “Walking” — “I never learned the sunflower’s golden language or the tongues of its citizens. (…) But they knew what to do, how to live.” (p. 157, book / p. 115 course anthology).

    (image Chris Pappan, ‘Atom Heart Mother (Hearth)’, 2016, reproduced from https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/land-carries-our-ancestors-contemporary-art-native-americans)