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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". Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award.
Apr 9, 2024 · 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. Snyder received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1975.
Gary Snyder began his career in the 1950s as a noted member of the “Beat Generation,” though he has since explored a wide range of social and spiritual matters in both poetry and prose. Snyder’s work blends physical reality and precise observations of nature with inner insight received primarily…
Early Life. Gary Snyder, one of the most iconic poets in the American Beat Generation, was born in San Francisco, California, on May 8th, 1930. At a young age, he moved to King County, Washington at a young age with his parent, Harold and Lois Hennessy Snyder. They were descendants of German, Scottish, Irish, and English parents.
Aug 20, 2019 · By. Robert McNamara. Updated on August 20, 2019. Gary Snyder is an American poet closely associated with Zen Buddhism and a deep respect for nature and the environment. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1975 for his book of poems Turtle Island.
Gary Snyder was born on May 8, 1930, in San Francisco. He has published numerous books of poetry and prose, including Danger on Peaks (Counterpoint Press, 2005) The Gary Snyder Reader (1952-1998) (1999); Mountains and Rivers Without End (1997); No Nature: New and Selected Poems (1993), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; The ...
Sep 10, 2020 · Gary Snyder’s self-education began early. He was born in 1930 at the beginning of the Great Depression and spent his early childhood on his parents’ subsistence farm in the Pacific Northwest. War work took his father to Portland, and Snyder went to high school and college there.
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