Gary Snyder

between June and September 1965, North Cascades National Park, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington State, USA --- Summer 1965, 8 day backpack climbing in wilderness area of northern Cascades, Glacier Park, Washington state, [with] Gary Snyder back from a near-decade in Kyoto studying & practicing Zazen. My first mountain walk.

 Image by © Allen Ginsberg/CORBIS

Gary Snyder was born in San Francisco in 1930. 

He has published sixteen books of poetry and prose, including 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); 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.

This is a documentary on Gary Snyder's visit in Greece.

A rather rare portrait of Gary Snyder gathering his lectures and his poetry readings

during this visit.

He reveals himself in front

Director:

 Thanassis Papathanassiou Vagenas

Writers:

 Thanassis Papathanassiou Vagenas, Nikos Stathogiannopoulos

Trivia: Won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his poetry collection "Turtle Island".

Born: May 8, 1930 in San Francisco, California, USA

Full cast and crew for

Gary Snyder: Ecology and Poetry (2002)

Directed by

Thanassis Papathanassiou Vagenas

Cast (in alphabetical order) Gary Snyder ... Himself

Original Music by

Moles

Cinematography by

Yannis Fagras

Faidra Oikonomou

Thanassis Papathanassiou Vagenas

Nikos Stathogiannopoulos

Asinethi Zouridi

Music Department

George Panagiotakopoulos .... music editor

Gary Snyder - "Hay for the Horses"

Diesel friend Robert Gray reads Gary Snyder's "Hay for the Horses" as part of DIESEL Bookstore's celebration of National Poetry Month. For the month of April, DIESEL will be posting a new video each day. 

video

Pulitzer Prize Winning 

Poet Gary Snyder at Wild & Scenic

The War Against the Wild

And when humanity is laid out like coal

somewhere some earnest geologist

will note them in his notebook.

from “The Politicians,” The Back Country