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:
“The Universe is Imaginative”: An Interview with David Robertson
“August on Sourdough”: An Archival View of Gary Snyder’s Intercultural Poetics
Seeing a Corner of the Sky in Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers without End
Riprap of Things: Subject and Object in Gary Snyder’s Early Poetry
Living Landscape: An Interview with Gary Snyder
The Circumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais
Real Matter, Spiritual Mountain: Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac on Mt. Tamalpais
Practising Emptiness: Gary Snyder’s Playful Ecological Work
Notes, by Gary Snyder
Pattern Which Connects: Metaphor in Gary Snyder’s Later Poetry
A Note on Japanese Allusions in Gary Snyder’s Poetry
Gary Snyder’s Myths & Texts and the Monomyth
Notes: Unity and Power of Imagination in Gary Snyder’s “The Elwha River”
Bubbs Creek Haircut: Gary Snyder’s “Great Departure” in Mountains and Rivers without End
Gary Snyder’s Descent to Turtle Island: Searching for Fossil Love
The Incredible Survival of Coyote, by Gary Snyder
Additional Resources:
Western Writers Series, Boise State University: Gary Snyder
