The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder

“To read their letters … is to overhear the evolution of a remarkable friendship and the birth of a literary flowering we know as the Beat movement.” –San Francisco Chronicle “Allen Ginsberg was the poet laureate of the Beat Generation … As much through the strength of his own irrepressible personality as through his poetry, Mr. Ginsberg provided a bridge between the Underground and the Transcendental.” –New York Times “Reading [Snyder], you encounter a massive, assimilating intelligence, with a startling command of natural and human history.” –New Yorker

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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