The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations, 1952-1998

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Counterpoint, 1999 - Literary Collections - 617 pages
This collection gathers the essays, travel journals, letters, poems, and translations of one of the influential voices of the twentieth century. The author has been a cultural force in America for five decades, prizewinning poet, environmental activist, Zen Buddhist, Earth householder, and reluctant counterculture guru. Having expanded far beyond the Beat scene that first brought his work to the public ear and eye, he has produced a broad ranging body of work that encompasses his fluency in Eastern literature and culture, his commitment to the environment, and his concepts of humanity's place in the cosmos

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Lookouts Journal
5
Japan First Time Around
24
Spring Sesshin at Shokokuji
34
Copyright

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About the author (1999)

Gary Snyder was born in San Francisco, California on May 8, 1930. He received a B.A. in anthropology at Reed College in 1951. Between working as a logger, a trail-crew member, and a seaman on a Pacific tanker, he was associated with Beat poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso and studied in a Zen monastery in Japan. He wrote numerous books of poetry and prose including Danger on Peaks, Mountains and Rivers Without End, No Nature: New and Selected Poems, The Practice of the Wild, Regarding Wave, and Myths and Texts. He received an American Book Award for Axe Handles and the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Turtle Island. He has also received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Bollingen Prize, the Bess Hokin Prize, the Levinson Prize from Poetry, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the Shelley Memorial Award. In 2012, he received the Wallace Stevens Award for lifetime achievement by the Academy of American Poets.

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