are present from the start. "Not written anything very great, that's bugged me, overanxious to please I guess and follow Howl up, obsessional, so just a lot of self conscious long lines about politics, horrid, some funny tho--I don't know, I have a lot of manuscripts," [Allen] Ginsberg confesses in 1958, in a perhaps prophetic note about the rest of his life's work. In the earlier letters, [Gary] Snyder comes off as more of the comradely teacher, outlining Zen concepts and setting his own course as a broad and deep socio-ecological thinker, as in this 1960 observation: "Nobody can straighten American politics out because the people won't stand for it--how can the internal economics be put in order when everybody wants everything? Any sane monetary policy or farm policy doomed to ruin. Ditto by logical extension foreign policy."from San Franciso Chronicle: The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder
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