Background
Snyder, Gary Sherman was born on May 8, 1930 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Harold Alton and Lois (Wilkie) Snyder.
(Completely revised format with a new introduction by Snyd...)
Completely revised format with a new introduction by Snyder of a work originally published in wrappers in 1960 by the Totem Press. Divided into 3 sequences - logging, hunting, burning - the poetry combines Buddhist and Amerindian lore with devotion to the land and work.
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(A collection of poems that marks Gary Snyder's golden yea...)
A collection of poems that marks Gary Snyder's golden years which would culminate with the Pulitzer Prize winning Turtle Island.
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( Gary Snyder's second collection, Myths & Texts, was ori...)
Gary Snyder's second collection, Myths & Texts, was originally published in 1960 by Totem Press. It is now reissued by New Directions in this completely revised format, with an introduction by the author. The three sequences in the book—"Logging," "Hunting," "Burning"—show the remarkable cohesiveness in Snyder's writings over the years, for we find the poet absorbed, then as now, with Buddhist and Amerindian lore and other interconnections East and West, but above all with the premedical devotion to the land and work.
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( Gary Snyder joined his old friend, novelist Jim Harriso...)
Gary Snyder joined his old friend, novelist Jim Harrison, to discuss their loves and lives and what has become of them throughout the years. Set amidst the natural beauty of the Santa Lucia Mountains, their conversationsharnessing their ideas of all that is wild, sacred and intimate in this worldmove from the admission that Snyder’s mother was a devout atheist to his personal accounts of his initiation into Zen Buddhist culture, being literally dangled by the ankles over a cliff. After years of living in Japan, Snyder returns to the States to build a farmhouse in the remote foothills of the Sierras, a homestead he calls Kitkitdizze. For all of the depth in these conversations, Jim Harrison and Gary Snyder are humorous and friendly, and with the artfully interspersed dialogue from old friends and loves like Scott Slovic, Michael McClure, Jack Shoemaker, and Joanne Kyger, the discussion reaches a level of not only the personal, but the global, redefining our idea of the Beat Generation and challenging the future directions of the environmental movement and its association with Deep Ecology.” The Etiquette of Freedom is an all-encompassing companion to the film The Practice of the Wild. A DVD is included which contains the film together with more than an hour of out-takes and expanded interviews, as well as an extended reading by Gary Snyder. The whole offers a rare glimpse of their extended discussion of life and what it means to be wild and alive.
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( By any measure, Gary Snyder is one of the greatest poet...)
By any measure, Gary Snyder is one of the greatest poets in America in the last century. From his first book of poems to his latest collection of essays, his work and his example, standing between Tu Fu and Thoreau, have been influential all over the world. Riprap, his first book of poems, was published in Japan in 1959 by Origin Press, and it is the fiftieth anniversary of that groundbreaking book we celebrate with this edition. A small press reprint of that book included Snyder’s translations of Han Shan’s Cold Mountain Poems, perhaps the finest translations of that remarkable poet ever made into English. Reintroducing one of the twentieth century's foremost collections of poetry, this edition will please those already familiar with this work and excite a new generation of readers with its profound simplicity and spare elegance.
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( The title, Regarding Wave, reflects "a half-buried seri...)
The title, Regarding Wave, reflects "a half-buried series of word origins dating back through the Indo-European language: intersections of energy, woman, song and 'Gone Beyond Wisdom.'" "Wild nature as the ultimate ground of human affairs"––the beautiful, precarious balance among forces and species forms a unifying theme for the new poems in this collection. The title, Regarding Wave, reflects "a half-buried series of word origins dating back through the Indo-European language: intersections of energy, woman, song and 'Gone Beyond Wisdom.'" Central to the work is a cycle of songs for Snyder's wife, Masa, and their first son, Kai. Probing even further than Snyder's previous collection of poems, The Back Country, this new volume freshly explores "the most archaic values on earth… the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe…”
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( Inspired by the ancient Chinese proverb, There’s nothi...)
Inspired by the ancient Chinese proverb, There’s nothing you can own that can’t be left out in the rain,” this collection charts the journeys of the poet from 1947 to 1985. This book is unique among Gary Snyder’s numerable works, and the poems contained here are as broad in style as the compilation is in timeframe. With a new introduction by the author, Left Out in the Rain captures the evolution of the poet and the man. Readers will travel with Snyder from the American West to the Far East. From Berkeley to Kyoto, his imagery provides insight into the natural world as well as the human experience. With the span of a few words, Snyder can reveal a universe and then two pages later deftly handle a villanelle. Sensual, sardonic, meditative, epigrammatic, formalistwhatever the tone or structure, these poems all bear the indelible stamp of a master. Always evocative, they remind us why Snyder is one of our most heralded and beloved contemporary poets.
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( In 1962 Gary Snyder, with his wife, the poet Joanne Kyg...)
In 1962 Gary Snyder, with his wife, the poet Joanne Kyger, joined Allen Ginsberg and his companion Peter Orlovsky for a long trip to India and surrounding countries. As always, Snyder kept extensive journals of his travels and, in this particular case, also wrote the whole account in one long letter to his sister. It was an amazing trip, and one that eventually took on legendary status as an iconic Beat Voyage. Complete with slides and photographs, Passage Through India takes us on a journey that transcends time.
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(A poetic autobiography that traces the author's life from...)
A poetic autobiography that traces the author's life from his boyhood in Oregon to San Francisco, Kyoto and New York, and to his home in the Sierra foothills of northern California.
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( The nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practic...)
The nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder’s work and thought, and this profound collection is widely accepted as one of the central texts on wilderness and the interaction of nature and culture.
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("The greatest of living nature poets. . . . It helps us t...)
"The greatest of living nature poets. . . . It helps us to go on, having Gary Snyder in our midst."--Los Angeles Times. Snyder is the author of many volumes of poetry and prose, including The Practice of the Wild and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Turtle Island. Reading tour.
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( In simple, striking verse, legendary poet Gary Snyder w...)
In simple, striking verse, legendary poet Gary Snyder weaves an epic discourse on the topics of geology, prehistory, and mythology. First published in 1996, this landmark work encompasses Asian artistic traditions, as well as Native American storytelling and Zen Buddhist philosophy, and celebrates the disparate elements of the Earth — sky, rock, water — while exploring the human connection to nature with stunning wisdom. Winner of the Bollingen Poetry Prize, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Orion Society's John Hay Award, among others, Gary Snyder finds his quiet brilliance celebrated in this new edition of one of his most treasured works.
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Snyder, Gary Sherman was born on May 8, 1930 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Harold Alton and Lois (Wilkie) Snyder.
Bachelor, Reed College, 1951. Postgraduate, Indiana University, 1952. Postgraduate, University California-Berkeley, 1956.
General Lookout Mount Baker Forest, 1952-1953. Research in Japan, 1956-1957, 59-64. Lecturer University California, Berkeley, 1964-1965, professor Davis, since 1985.
( The nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practic...)
( The title, Regarding Wave, reflects "a half-buried seri...)
(A poetic autobiography that traces the author's life from...)
( Inspired by the ancient Chinese proverb, There’s nothi...)
( In 1962 Gary Snyder, with his wife, the poet Joanne Kyg...)
( Gary Snyder joined his old friend, novelist Jim Harriso...)
( In simple, striking verse, legendary poet Gary Snyder w...)
(Completely revised format with a new introduction by Snyd...)
(A collection of poems that marks Gary Snyder's golden yea...)
( Gary Snyder's second collection, Myths & Texts, was ori...)
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Member American Academy Arts and Letters, American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Married Masa Uehara, August 6, 1967 (divorced). Children: Kai, Gen; married Carole Koda, April 28, 1991.