Desc: The Practice of the Wild: Directed by John J. Healey. With Jim Harrison, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, Jack Shoemaker. Beautifully attuned to the cycles of nature and the transcendent power of the written word, this warm portrait of Beat poet Gary Snyder and his cantankerous compadre Jim Harrison intertwines Bay Area bohemia, Zen Buddhism and musings on ecology and spirituality with the complex simplicity of a perfectly crafted stanza.