Search results
American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist
tr.pinterest.com
- Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology ". [ 2 ]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Snyder
People also ask
Who is Gary Snyder?
Is Gary Snyder still alive?
Where did Gary Snyder go to school?
Did Gary Snyder marry a Japanese poet?
What did SNyder do in the evening?
Did Snyder think in geological time?
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology ". [ 2 ]
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930, San Francisco, California, U.S.) is an American poet early identified with the Beat movement and, from the late 1960s, an important spokesman for the concerns of communal living and ecological activism. Snyder received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1975.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Work
- Early life and education
- Influences
- Philosophy
- Reviews
- Writings
- Honors and awards
- Assessment
Gary Snyder began his career in the 1950s as a noted member of the Beat Generation, though he has since explored a wide range of social and spiritual matters in both poetry and prose. Snyders work blends physical reality and precise observations of nature with inner insight received primarily through the practice of Zen Buddhism. While Snyder has g...
Snyder was born in San Francisco and raised on small farms in Washington state and Oregon. Because he lived close to nature from earliest childhood, Snyder was distressed at a young age by the wanton destruction of the Pacific Northwestern forests, and he began to study and respect the Indian cultures that offered a more harmonious relationship wit...
If Snyder was influenced by his Beat contemporaries, he also exerted an influence on them. Kerouac modeled his character Japhy Ryder in The Dharma Bums on Snyder, and the poet encouraged his friends to take an interest in Eastern philosophy as an antidote to the ills of the West. Just as the Beats were gaining nation-wide notoriety, Snyder moved to...
Snyders involvement with Buddhism has been important to his poetry from the outset. In American Poetry since 1960: Some Critical Perspectives, Alan Williamson wrote that Snyders canon suggests a process of meditation or spiritual exercise, clearing the path from temporal life to the moment of Enlightenmentthe sudden dropping-away of the phenomenal ...
Snyders work reflects a concern for the environment and the plight of the American Indian as well as insights engendered by his role as a husband, father and steward of the land. Axe Handles, Snyders 1983 collection, returns to the domestic environmentespecially the relationship between father and sonsas a central motif. Poetry magazine reviewer Br...
The long poem, Mountains and Rivers without End, titled after a Chinese sideways scroll painting, spanned much of Snyders career and was finally published in 1996 to glowing praise from critics. The poem is a conscious effort to recreate the social function of ancient epics: to tell a good story, while offering instruction in life by way of myth an...
Gary Snyder has won numerous honors and awards for his writing, including the Bollingen Prize, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Bess Hokin Prize and the Levinson Prize from Poetry, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Ruth L...
In an essay published in A Controversy of Poets, Snyder offered his own assessment of his art. As a poet, he wrote, I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth; the love and ecstasy of the dance, th...
Oct 13, 2008 · Gary Snyder, the Zen poet, lives on a hundred backcountry acres in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, meditates mornings, and thanks his food before he eats it, clapping his hands together...
- Dana Goodyear
May 6, 2021 · Gary Snyder is one of the last living members of the Beat Generation. Sort of. He is alive—he turns 91 this month—and he knew many of the most famous Beats, like Kerouac and Ginsberg. But he might best be described as a not-quite-Beat.
Sep 10, 2020 · The Gary Snyder of 1970—father, husband, householder, citizen, and taxpayer—had become a public figure at a moment when the environment was suddenly on the U.S. political agenda. These were the years of the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
Veteran environmentalist Gary Snyder invites us to bring some dignity to our relations with our non-human neighbors. It’s a matter of etiquette. And of course he reminds us to simplify our lives.
