(1930-05-08) May 8, 1930 (age 94) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation
Poet
essayist
travel writer
translator
educator
Education
Reed College (BA) Indiana University, Bloomington
Period
1950–present
Literary movement
San Francisco Renaissance, Beat Generation
Notable works
Turtle Island, 1974; The Real Work, 1980; A Place in Space, 1995; Mountains and Rivers Without End, 1996
Notable awards
Pulitzer Prize for poetry, 1975; American Book Award, 1984; Bollingen Prize for Poetry, 1997; John Hay Award for Nature Writing, 1997; Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, 2008[1]
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. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. He has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder was an academic at the University of California, Davis, and for a time served as a member of the California Arts Council.
^"Poetry Foundation: Gary Snyder Wins 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize". 2008-04-29. Archived from the original on 2008-05-11. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
^Kopecky, Petr (2006). "Nature Writing in American Literature: Inspirations, Interrelations, and Impacts of California Authors on the Deep Ecology Movement". The Trumpeter. 22 (2). ISSN 0832-6193. Retrieved 8 December 2022. [George] Sessions' numerous references to Snyder have not passed unnoticed by other scholars. In his influential study The Idea of Wilderness (1991), Max Oelschlaeger titled the section on Snyder 'Poet Laureate of Deep Ecology.' What is even more striking is that in the footnote, Oelschlaeger confesses that 'Sessions in particular has influenced me to see and read Snyder as the poet laureate of deep ecology.'
GarySnyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat...
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based on GarySnyder. Kerouac was impressed with Snyder and they were close for several years. In the spring of 1955, they lived together in Snyder's cabin...
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by GarySnyder. The Dharma Bums contains accounts of a mountain climbing trip Kerouac took with Snyder, and includes excerpts of letters from Snyder. While...
India with GarySnyder. Snyder had previously spent time in Kyoto to study at the First Zen Institute at Daitoku-ji Monastery. At one point, Snyder chanted...
Rivers Without End is an epic poem by American poet and essayist GarySnyder. Snyder began writing the thirty-nine poems contained in the epic in 1956...
one's inner self over material possessions. Some Beat writers, such as GarySnyder, began to delve into Eastern religions such as Buddhism and Taoism. Politics...
contemporary queer theory, and author of several works on the subject: GarySnyder and the American Unconscious (1991), Beyond Sexuality (2000), and Unlimited...
American teachers in the human potential movement. His friendship with poet GarySnyder nurtured his sympathies with the budding environmental movement, to which...
Portland, Oregon, to attend Reed College. There he roomed with fellow poet GarySnyder and also befriended Philip Whalen. Welch decided to become a writer after...
the works of Jack Kerouac, GarySnyder, and other Beats. Coyote met Snyder with the Diggers and was impressed with Snyder's "gravitas and elegance, his...
Snyder has made guest appearances on ER, Brothers and Sisters, and Gary Unmarried. Snyder appeared in Saul of the Mole Men, The Young Person's Guide to History...
Kenneth Rexroth and former resident of the Heights, Pulitzer Prize winner GarySnyder. Accessible by a dirt road connected to Muir Woods Road, the two properties...
1970s when the term came into wider usage. American author and ecologist GarySnyder uses the term to refer to North America, writing that it synthesizes...
the collection of the Juko'in subtemple of Daitoku-ji in Kyoto, Japan. GarySnyder referenced the image in his 2008 poem "Mu Ch'i's Persimmons". Lee Page...
GarySnyder Fine Art, New York 2005, Janet Sobel, D.C. Moore, New York 2010: Janet Sobel: Drip Paintings and Selected Works on Paper, GarySnyder/Project...
Abbey's literary influences included Aldo Leopold, Henry David Thoreau, GarySnyder, Peter Kropotkin, and A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Although often compared to authors...
In the Beat period, original haiku were composed by Diane di Prima, GarySnyder, Jack Kerouac, Richard Wright and James W. Hackett. Wright composed some...
Stephanie Mills, Jim Dodge, Freeman House, Van Andruss, David Haenke, and GarySnyder", working together through the Planet Drum foundation, and similar groups...
Trow, Paul. "Time for The News". Kingdom Magazine by Arnold Palmer. "GarySnyder, Peter Coyote, Joanne Kyger and Huey Lewis: Celebrating Lew Welch". October...
were on the team: Burton Watson, Philip Yampolsky, and GarySnyder. (Sasaki sponsored Snyder's first trip to Japan.) They were also joined by Walter Nowick...
Govinda was visited by Beat poets, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and GarySnyder. In later history, at the peak of the Hippie movement, the area also...
Aoyagi, Akiko (1998). The Book of Tofu. ISBN 978-1-58008-013-2 Snyder, Gary. The GarySnyder Reader (1999) Counterpoint. ISBN 978-1-887178-90-7 Wikimedia...
accompaniment drew influence from a broad range of artists, including the poet GarySnyder, author Karl Ove Knausgård and songwriter Julie Doiron. Characterized...
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