WorldCat Identities

Snyder, Gary 1930-

Overview
Works: 809 works in 1,230 publications in 17 languages and 41,133 library holdings
Genres: American poetry  Broadsides 
Roles: Interviewee, Signer, Performer, Translator, Inscriber, Author of introduction, Speaker, Creator, Correspondent, Contributor, Narrator
Classifications: ps3569.n88, 811.54
Publication Timeline
Key
Publications about Gary Snyder Publications about Gary Snyder
Publications by Gary Snyder Publications by Gary Snyder
Most widely held works about Gary Snyder
 
moreShow More Titles
fewerShow Fewer Titles
Most widely held works by Gary Snyder
by ( Book )
15 editions published between and 2009 in 6 languages and held by 1,701 libraries worldwide
These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time.
by ( Book )
10 editions published between and 2004 in English and held by 1,501 libraries worldwide
The author has been a major cultural force in America for five decades. This book is one of the central texts on wilderness and the interaction of nature and culture. These nine essays reveal why he has gone on to become one of America's cultural leaders, comprehending things about our world before they were ever discussed in public. With thoughts ranging from political and spiritual matters to those regarding the environment and the art of becoming native to this continent, this collection of essays, first published in 1990, reflect the mature centerpiece of the author's work and thought.
by ( Book )
8 editions published between and 1993 in English and held by 1,423 libraries worldwide
No Nature marks the first collection from the whole of Snyder's work as a poet.
by ( Book )
22 editions published between and 2008 in English and Japanese and held by 1,289 libraries worldwide
Mountains and Rivers is an epic of geology, prehistory, and planetary mythologies. It is a poem about land and its processes, a book about wisdom, compassion, and myth, and a narrative work that is not quite like anything else.
by ( Book )
6 editions published between and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,210 libraries worldwide
by ( Book )
10 editions published between and 2000 in English and Japanese and held by 1,122 libraries worldwide
by ( Book )
11 editions published between and 1998 in English and held by 1,098 libraries worldwide
by ( Book )
3 editions published in in English and held by 943 libraries worldwide
A poetic autobiography that traces the author's life from his boyhood in Oregon to San Francisco, Kyoto and New York, and to his home in the Sierra foothills of northern California.
by ( Book )
10 editions published between and 1998 in English and German and held by 934 libraries worldwide
by ( Book )
14 editions published between and 1998 in English and held by 921 libraries worldwide
by ( Book )
4 editions published between and 2006 in English and held by 914 libraries worldwide
"When Gary Snyder applied for the position of fire lookout for the U.S. Forest Service in Washington state in 1952 he wrote in his letter, "So I would like your highest, most remote, and most difficult-of-access lookout." He got the job and was sent to Crater Mountain Lookout, the most remote outpost in Washington. But this wasn't his first encounter with dangerous peaks." "This book, Snyder's first collection of new poems in twenty years, begins with poems about an earlier climb - Snyder's first ascent of Mount St. Helens in 1945. He learned of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the morning of his descent, from newspapers delivered to forestry offices on the slopes of the mountain. Climbing, mountain and backwoods encounters begun in those early years of his life set the tone and provided much of the substance for what has followed in the remarkable life of one of America's most revered poets." "Danger on Peaks contains work in a surprising variety of styles, creating an arc-shaped trail from those earliest climbs to what the poet calls poems "of intimate immediate life, gossip and insight" (some of the poet's most personal work ever). Included are poems that work with the magical lyrics of Old Man Coyote and poems in an American / Japanese hybrid, a form of haibun, "haiku plus prose," which will remind readers as much of William Carlos Williams as Basho. The book ends with poems for the Buddhas of Bamiyan Valley, which were blown up by the Taliban, and the World Trade Towers."--BOOK JACKET.
by ( Book )
14 editions published between and 2000 in English and held by 831 libraries worldwide
"This collection gathers the essays, travel journals, letters, poems, and translations of one of the influential voices of the twentieth century." "Gary Snyder has been a cultural force in America for five decades - prizewinning poet, environmental activist, Zen Buddhist, earth-householder, and reluctant counterculture guru. Having expanded far beyond the Beat scene that first brought his work to the public ear and eye, Snyder has produced a broad-ranging body of work that encompasses his fluency in Eastern literature and culture, his commitment to the environment, and his concepts of humanity's place in the cosmos."--BOOK JACKET.
by ( Book )
4 editions published in in English and held by 829 libraries worldwide
by ( Book )
5 editions published between and 2008 in English and held by 709 libraries worldwide
This new collection brings together twenty-nine essays spanning nearly forty years of Snyder's career, with thirteen essays written since the publication of The Practice of the Wild in 1990. Displaying his playful and subtle intellect, these pieces explore our place on earth. Snyder argues that nature is not something apart from us, but intrinsic: our societies and civilizations are "natural constructs." Whether through common language or shared geographical watershed, we are united in community. We must go beyond racial, ethnic, and religious identities to find a shared concern for the same ground that benefits humans and nonhumans alike. Snyder argues that this thinking will not make people provincial, but will lead to a new kind of planetary and ecological cosmopolitanism.
by ( Book )
13 editions published between and 1999 in English and German and held by 670 libraries worldwide
by ( Book )
2 editions published in in English and held by 617 libraries worldwide
by ( Book )
9 editions published between and 2008 in English and held by 602 libraries worldwide
These essays employ fire as a metaphor for the crucial moment when deeply held viewpoints yield to new experiences - the moment when our spirits and minds broaden and mature ... [The author] here writes and riffs on a wide range of topics. He explores southwestern European Paleolithic cave art, and his own personal poetic history with haiku. He offers ... reminiscences of his youthful West Coast logging and trail crew day, and the talks he gave in Paris and Tokyo on art and archetypes. He honors poets of his generation, like Philip Whalen and Allen Ginsberg, and meditates on art, labor, and the making of families, houses, and homesteads.-Dust jacket.
by ( Book )
7 editions published between and 2007 in English and held by 581 libraries worldwide
by ( Book )
13 editions published between and 2010 in English and held by 401 libraries worldwide
"One of the central relationships in the Beat scene was the long-lasting friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Ginsberg introduced Snyder to the East Coast Beat writers, including Jack Kerouac, while Snyder himself became the model for the serious poet that Ginsberg so wanted to become. Snyder encouraged Ginsberg to explore the beauty of the West Coast and, even more lastingly, introduced Ginsberg to Buddhism, the subject of so many long letter exchanges between them. Beginning in 1956 and continuing through 1991, the two men exchanged more than 850 letters. Bill Morgan, Ginsberg's biographer and an important editor of his papers, has selected the most significant correspondence from this long friendship. The letters themselves paint the biographical and poetic portraits of two of America's most important--and most fascinating--poets. Robert Hass' insightful introduction discusses the lives of these two major poets and their enriching and moving relationship."--Publisher's description.
 
moreShow More Titles
fewerShow Fewer Titles
Audience Level
0
Audience Level
1
  Kids General Special  
Audience level: 0.61 (from 0.55 for The practi ... to 0.70 for Riprap ; & ...)
Turtle Island
Alternative Names
Shih-nai-te, 1930-
Snainter, Gkary, 1930-
Snyder, Gary S. 1930-
Snyder, Gary Sherman, 1930-
ゲイリ-スナイダ-, 1930-
ゲイリ－スナイダ
ゲーリー・スナイダー
Languages
Covers