Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder ( born May 8, 1930 in San Francisco) is an American writer and environmental activist.

Life

Gary Snyder grew up in the states of Oregon and Washington. He studied anthropology at Reed College in Portland and graduated in 1951 with the degree of Bachelor from. Various positions, including as a sailor, he studied from 1953 to 1956 Oriental Languages ​​at Berkeley. During this time he became acquainted with writers such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. He was represented in the published by Höllerer and Gregory Corso anthology Young American Poetry ( 1961). From 1956 to 1964 he lived in Japan and studied there eventually Buddhism. Finally, he taught at the University of California at Davis in the office.

In 1975 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his book Turtle Iceland. He was a central figure of the Beat movement and later turned to Buddhist thinking. In 2003 he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Snyder lives in San Francisco.

Works

  • Myths & Texts (1960 )
  • Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers Without End (1965 )
  • The Back Country (1967 )
  • Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems (1969 )
  • Regarding Wave (1969 )
  • Earth House Hold ( 1969)
  • Turtle Iceland (1974 )
  • The Old Ways (1977 )
  • He Who Hunted Birds in His Father's Village: The Dimensions of a Haida Myth (1979 )
  • The Real Work ( 1980)
  • Axe Handles (1983 )
  • Passage Through India ( 1983)
  • Left Out in the Rain (1988 )
  • The Practice of the Wild ( 1990)
  • No Nature: New and Selected Poems (1992 )
  • A Place in Space (1995 )
  • Mountains and Rivers Without End (1996 )
  • The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations (1999)
  • Danger on Peaks (2005)
  • Back on the Fire: Essays (2007)
  • Maya. Poems. Munich 1972. ISBN 3-446-11566-8
  • Turtle Island. Berlin 1980. ISBN 3-921547-06-7, Berlin, 2006. ISBN 3-936271-28-3
  • The wild song of the fig tree, Göttingen 1997. ISBN 3-923588-43-7
  • Tracks of the blue country. Poems. Göttingen 2004. ISBN 3-923588-64- X
  • Danger on the peaks. Berlin 2006. ISBN 3-936271-26-7
  • East-West drift. Nine poems and an essay. Göttingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-923588-71-8
  • Myths & Texts. Afterword and translation of Bernhard Widder. City Lights Press, 2010. ISBN 978-3936271409
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