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Gary Snyder

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gary Snyder 1930-, American poet, b. San Francisco. Associated with the beat generation of the 1950s, he lived in Japan from 1956 to 1968. His poetry, influenced by Zen Buddhism and Native American culture, celebrates the peace found in nature and decries its destruction; volumes include Myths and Texts (1960), Turtle Island (1974; Pulitzer Prize), Axe Handles (1983), No Nature: New and Selected Poems (1992), and Danger on Peaks (2004). Author not available, SNYDER, GARY. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
Snyder, Gary (Sherman)
Snyder, Gary [Sherman] (1930– ),San Francisco‐born poet, reared on a Washington farm and in Portland, after graduation from Reed...journal jottings on poetry, primitivism, communal life, and ecology, and The Old Ways (1977) is a small, lesser collection of essays. Snyder figures as Japhy Ryder ... Read more
Gary (Sherman) Snyder
...Turtle Island (1974, Pulitzer Prize) and Mountains and Rivers Without End (1996). From the late 1960s he has been an important spokesman for communal living and ecological activism. Gary (Sherman) Snyder Gary (Sherman) Snyder Gary (Sherman) Snyder Read more

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GARY SNYDER: GREENING AGAIN
; GARY SNYDER: GREENING AGAIN Danger on Peaks. By Gary Snyder. Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker Hoard, 2004...his new collection, "Waiting for a Ride," Gary Snyder says "most of my work, / such as it is... Read more
Interview: Gary Snyder discusses the birth of the Beat Generation, 50 years of "Howl"
; ...Considered (NPR) 10-07-2005 Interview: Gary Snyder discusses the birth of the Beat...was in San Francisco, and poet Gary Snyder was also reading and he was there. Welcome to the program, Gary Snyder. What was your impression of "Howl... Read more
Back-to-Nature Advocator Gary Snyder to Make Presentation Here with Poet Ko Un.
; Gary Snyder, the prominent American poet who has advocated...this century without the life and work of Gary Snyder. After reading this collection of essays...compiled in one book recently, titled``The Gary Snyder Reader.'' The author has also translated... Read more
TALKING VOLUMES; DANGER ON PEAKS; The poet's practice; In Gary Snyder's new collection of poems, "Danger on Peaks," impermanence is the blade that cuts straight to life's essence.(VARIETY)(TALKING VOLUMES)
; ...CORRECTION PUBLISHED 04/27/05: Poet Gary Snyder was ncorrectly quoted in this article...the World.' It Is the World. - Gary Snyder. A young poet in the audience asked...59-year career, there is very little Gary Snyder has written that does not pertain... Read more
Mountains and Rivers Are Us: Gary Snyder and the Nature of the Nature of Nature.(Critical Essay)
; ...overall shape and development of Gary Snyder's poetic career--with its geography...regarded as a sort of summa, as well as Snyder's major effort in the genre of the...Mountains and Rivers, or at least Snyder's original conception of it as a... Read more
Gary Snyder Wins 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
; ...PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --- Poet Gary Snyder is the winner of the 2008 Ruth...announcing the award, Wiman said: Gary Snyder is in essence a contemporary devotional...statement in making the selection: Gary Snyder is a true nature poet: theres no... Read more
The flourishing commons: disembodied conversation. (opinions oof Ivan Illich, Paul Goodman, and Gary Snyder)(includes related article on Tong Ren)
; In 1984, Gary Snyder and Lee did a big public event in San...friends -- Ivan Illich, Paul Goodman, and Gary Snyder -- on a collaged conversation across...depth. That's where he links to Gary. Gary Snyder: I'm glad you are taking all this on... Read more
Snyder's The Call of the Wild.(Gary Snyder)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
; Gary Snyder's poetry has long been praised for its commitment...or Turtle Island. In The Call of the Wild Snyder examines the future of the Native American...interpret the overall meaning of the poem. Snyder describes an old man, lying in bed waiting... Read more
Poetry; High-definition; Gary Snyder uses his poetry to scale mountains and to describe his love of the natural world.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Book Review)
; ...hill. For the past 50 years environmental poet Gary Snyder has been doing Stevens' experiment in reverse...by - they never die. From Danger on Peaks by Gary Snyder POETRY Danger on Peaks By: Gary Snyder. Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard, 112 pages... Read more
Gary Snyder. Danger on Peaks.(Book review)
; Gary Snyder. Danger on Peaks. Washington, D.C. Shoemaker...initial poems in the collection recount Snyder's experience of descending from Mount St...on the page. I'll leave it to readers (as Snyder himself does) to contemplate the implicit... Read more

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