The Gary Snyder Reader by Gary Snyder - ISBN: 9781582430799
Paperback
Having expanded far beyond the Beat poems that first brought his work into the public eye, Snyder has produced a wide-ranging body of work that encompasses his fluency in Eastern literature and culture and his commitment to the environment.

The Gary Snyder Reader

Prose, Poetry, and Translations

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  • Paperback

    640 pages

  • Release Date

    16 March 2000

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Summary

Gary Snyder has been a major cultural force in America for five decades-prize-winning poet, environmental activist, Zen Buddhist, earth-householder, and reluctant counterculture guru. This monumental collection gathers the essays, travel journals, letters, poems, and translations of one of the most influential voices of the twentieth century.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781582430799
ISBN-10:1582430799
Author:Gary Snyder
Publisher:Counterpoint
Imprint:Counterpoint
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:640
Release Date:16 March 2000
Weight:766g
Dimensions:228mm x 156mm
About The Author

Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry and prose. Since 1970 he has lived in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Snyder has also been awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry and the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award. His 1992 collection, No Nature, was a National Book Award finalist, and in 2008 he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Snyder is a poet, environmentalist, educator and Zen Buddhist.

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