Gary Snyder's long view.(POETRY)

American Scholar | June 22, 2009| | Copyright

With modesty and persistence that could simply be called wisdom (although the wisdom isn't simple), Gary Snyder has been writing poetry of unaffected clarity and moral seriousness for more than 50 years. Snyder's art insists that poetry is no more and no less important than other daily forms of craft and contemplation. Snyder remains known--misleadingly because reductively--as a Beat, one of the poets who read at the Six Gallery in San Francisco in 1955 (when Allen Ginsberg debuted "Howl"), and as the model for Japhy Ryder in Jack Kerouac's novel The Dharma Bums. The compact, ...

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