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Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology ". [2] Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award.
The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations, 1952-1988 was published in 1999, offering a rich selection of Snyder’s work in one volume. The Reader presents poems, travel writings, letters, interviews, and portions from Snyder’s prose works Earth Household (1969), The Practice of the Wild (1990), and A Place in Space (1995).
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930, San Francisco, California, U.S.) is an American poet early identified with the Beat movement and, from the late 1960s, an important spokesman for the concerns of communal living and ecological activism.
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- Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. Gary Snyder. Responsibility, Environmental, Blue Planet.
- Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. Gary Snyder. Nature, Home, Earth.
- Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.
- Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us love the world rather than to make us fear for the end of the world.
Snyder was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2003. He was the recipient of the 2012 Wallace Stevens Award for lifetime achievement by the Academy of American Poets. He is a professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Gary Snyder - The author of numerous books of poetry and prose, former Chancellor Gary ...
Oct 13, 2008 · Gary Snyder, the Zen poet, lives on a hundred backcountry acres in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, meditates mornings, and thanks his food before he eats it, clapping his hands together and ...
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Feb 21, 2017 · In the 1950s, Snyder hung out with Beats serving as inspiration for the main character in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums. Later in that decade, Snyder made his way to Japan to begin years of Zen ...
