Gary Snyder’s notebooks and journals

From a short film by Colin Still: the poet Gary Snyder, somewhere in the 1990s, talks about his notebooks and journals. All the sections of the film may be found on this page. There’s much more to see at Still’s website Optic Nerve, including short films about nine more American poets.

As Snyder says, what counts is writing, not being organized. But damn if he isn’t really organized too. He mentions that the first notebook in his hand is a calendar. That pale green and white paper, the cover, the pen in its loop: I would swear that he’s holding a Day-Timer.

[Click for a larger possible Day-Timer.]

Thanks to Kevin at harvest.ink

Related reading
All OCA notebook posts (Raindrop.io)

[I used Day-Timers a million years ago. Looking at the company’s website, I’m not surprised to see that the page design — at least the pocket page-a-day design — hasn’t changed a bit. As dowdy as they wanna be!]