Gary Snyder

GARY SNYDER is a poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His accolades include the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1975), the American Book Award (1984), the Bollingen Prize for Poetry (1997), the John Hay Award for Nature Writing (1997), and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2008). Often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance, he is known as “the Poet Laureate of Deep Ecology,” and his poetry reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. Snyder has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder served as a faculty member at the University of California, Davis, and he also served for a time on the California Arts Council.

No Nature

No Nature

Gary Snyder

Books by Gary Snyder from Catapult

Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations The Practice of the Wild The Great Clod

The Great Clod

Gary Snyder
Tawny Grammar

Tawny Grammar

Gary Snyder
Dooby Lane

Dooby Lane

Gary Snyder
The Etiquette of Freedom

The Etiquette of Freedom

Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison
This Present Moment

This Present Moment

Gary Snyder
Distant Neighbors

Distant Neighbors

Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry
Distant Neighbors

Distant Neighbors

Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry
Cold Mountain Poems

Cold Mountain Poems

Gary Snyder

Books by Gary Snyder from The Library of America