Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder was born in San Francisco in 1930.

He has published sixteen books of poetry and prose, including Back on the Fire (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007), Danger on Peaks (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004), The Gary Snyder Reader (1952-1998) (Counterpoint Press, 1999); Mountains and Rivers Without End (1997); No Nature: New and Selected Poems (1993), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; The Practice of the Wild (1990); Left Out in the Rain, New Poems 1947-1985; Axe Handles (1983), for which he received an American Book Award; Turtle Island (1974), which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry; Regarding Wave (1970); Earth House Hold (1969); The Back Country (1967) and Myths & Texts (1960).

He has received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Bollingen Prize, 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, and the Shelley Memorial Award. Snyder was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2003. He is a professor of English at the University of California, Davis.
(Text from www.poets.org)

resources on the web

The Circumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais
Walking around the mountain in 1996, with photos.
http://wwwenglish.ucdavis.edu/spark/v1n1/mttam/mttam.htm

Modern American Poetry
An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/snyder/snyder.htm

The Beat page
A Rooknet Project, three poems
http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/writers/snyder.html

University of California, Davis English Department
Bibliography
http://www.english.ucdavis.edu/faculty/snyder/snyder.htm

Gary Snyder Poems
text of over 20 poems
http://www.wenaus.com/poetry/snyder.html

Poetry.org, Academy of American Poets
three poems, related articles
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/167

Kenneth Rexroth essay on Gary Snyder (1970)
Bureau of Public Secrets
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/snyder.htm

Gary Snyder papers 1955-1983
Kent State University Library Special Collections finding list
http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/literature/poetry/snyder.html

Gary Snyder reading from Danger on Peaks
Minnesota Public Radio Talking Volumes, six poems and interview
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/04/18_newsroom_garysnyder/

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature -
A Research and Reference
Guide Research reference bibliography, California State University, Stanislaus
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/snyder.html

Reading Gary Snyder 's Mountains and Rivers Without End
Stanford University Humanities Center Graduate seminar
http://shc.stanford.edu/shc/1997-1998/97-98workshops/Gary.Snyder.html

Re-Imagining Our Place in Space:
Introduction to The Works of Gary Snyder
Harvard Seminar on Environmental Values, bibliography with links to online purchase of books
http://ecoethics.net/bib/1998/otca-003.htm

Berkeley Poetry Conference Lectures (SA 638, 1-7)
University of California Berkeley Language Center,
finding list of recordings from 1965
http://blc.berkeley.edu/bpc.html

Online Media:
University of California Berkeley Lectures and Events
Complete poetry reading, 1987
http://www.zen-occidental.net/divers/snyder1.html

resources in french

Un Zen Occidental
biography, excerpts of French translations
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/snyder/snyder.htm

The Beat Street
biography and two poems in translation
http://thebeatstreet.free.fr/snyder.html

La revue des resource
Sound recordings
http://www.larevuedesressources.org/article.php3?id_article=370