Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American man of letters. Perhaps best known as a poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), he is also an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. 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. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. Snyder has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. Snyder was an academic at the University of California, Davis and a member of the California Arts Council. (Information from Wikipedia)
Articles in Western American Literature:
“theirs is a kind of ecological aesthetics”: Three Mountain Poems by Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen, by Todd Giles
“The Universe is Imaginative”: An Interview with David Robertson, by Helena Feder
The Move West: Gary Snyder, by Alan Williamson
“August on Sourdough”: An Archival View of Gary Snyder’s Intercultural Poetics, by Andrew Hageman
Seeing a Corner of the Sky in Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers without End, by Julia Martin
Riprap of Things: Subject and Object in Gary Snyder’s Early Poetry, by Louise Mills
Living Landscape: An Interview with Gary Snyder, by John P. O’Grady
The Circumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais, by David Robertson
Real Matter, Spiritual Mountain: Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac on Mt. Tamalpais, by David Robertson
Practising Emptiness: Gary Snyder’s Playful Ecological Work, by Julia Martin
Notes, by Gary Snyder
Pattern Which Connects: Metaphor in Gary Snyder’s Later Poetry, by Julia Martin
A Note on Japanese Allusions in Gary Snyder’s Poetry, by Katsunori Yamazato
Gary Snyder’s Myths & Texts and the Monomyth, by Lee Bartlett
Notes: Unity and Power of Imagination in Gary Snyder’s “The Elwha River”, by Steve Windham
Bubbs Creek Haircut: Gary Snyder’s “Great Departure” in Mountains and Rivers without End, by Anthony Hunt
Gary Snyder’s Descent to Turtle Island: Searching for Fossil Love, by L. Edwin Folsom
The Incredible Survival of Coyote, by Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder, a Western Poet, by Thomas J. Lyon
Additional Resources:
Western Writers Series, Boise State University: Gary Snyder
Western American Literature Research 