Snyder, Gary 1930-

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Works:	1,014 works in 1,820 publications in 3 languages and 43,387 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Interviews Records and correspondence Diaries Biography Folklore Pictorial works Art Bibliography Musical settings
Roles:	Interviewee, Translator, Signer, Performer, Author of introduction, Creator, Other, Contributor, Speaker, sig, Correspondent, Inscriber, Lyricist, Editor
Classifications:	PS3569.N88, 811.54

Publication Timeline

1940 |

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Publications about Gary Snyder

Publications by Gary Snyder

Most widely held works about Gary Snyder

The language of life : a festival of poets by Bill D Moyers ( Book )
Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim creating countercultural community by Timothy Gray ( )
Reading the trail exploring the literature and natural history of the California crest by Corey Lee Lewis ( )
Gary Snyder by Bob Steuding ( Book )
The beats : a graphic history by Harvey Pekar ( Book )

The Gary Snyder reader : prose, poetry, and translations, 1952-1998 by Gary Snyder ( Book )
The real work : interviews & talks, 1964-1979 by Gary Snyder ( Book )
Gary Snyder's vision : poetry and the real work by Charles Molesworth ( Book )
Poets on the peaks : Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades by John Suiter ( Book )
Gary Snyder and the American unconscious : inhabiting the ground by Tim Dean ( Book )
In search of the primitive : rereading David Antin, Jerome Rothenberg, and Gary Snyder by Sherman Paul ( Book )
Sustainable poetry : four American ecopoets by Leonard M Scigaj ( Book )
Understanding Gary Snyder by Patrick D Murphy ( Book )
Critical essays on Gary Snyder ( Book )
Gary Snyder : dimensions of a life ( Book )
A place for wayfaring : the poetry and prose of Gary Snyder by Patrick D Murphy ( Book )
Passage through India by Gary Snyder ( Book )
"Forest beatniks" and "urban Thoreaus" : Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Lew Welch, and Michael McClure by Rod Phillips ( Book )
Gary Snyder by Bert Almon ( Book )
The High Sierra of California by Gary Snyder ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Gary Snyder

The practice of the wild : essays by Gary Snyder ( Book )
32 editions published between 1990 and 2010 in English and held by 1,851 WorldCat member 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

Turtle Island by Gary Snyder ( Book )
26 editions published between 1974 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,767 WorldCat member 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

No nature : new and selected poems by Gary Snyder ( Book )
11 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and held by 1,466 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
No Nature marks the first collection from the whole of Snyder's work as a poet

Mountains and rivers without end by Gary Snyder ( Book )
18 editions published between 1995 and 2013 in English and held by 1,278 WorldCat member 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

Riprap ; & Cold Mountain poems by Gary Snyder ( Book )
44 editions published between 1965 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,264 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
By any measure, Gary Snyder is one of the greatest poets in America in the last century. From his first book of poems to his latest collection of essays, his work and his example, standing between Tu Fu and Thoreau, have been influential all over the world. Riprap, his first book of poems, was published in Japan in 1959 by Origin Press, and it is the fiftieth anniversary of that groundbreaking book we celebrate with this edition. A small press reprint of that book included Snyder's translations of Han Shan's Cold Mountain Poems, perhaps the finest translations of that remarkable poet ever made

The back country by Gary Snyder ( Book )
27 editions published between 1966 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,258 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Axe handles : poems by Gary Snyder ( Book )
15 editions published between 1978 and 2005 in English and held by 1,248 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Earth house hold; technical notes & queries to fellow dharma revolutionaries by Gary Snyder ( Book )
26 editions published between 1969 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 1,186 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Myths & texts by Gary Snyder ( Book )
29 editions published between 1960 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,096 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Regarding wave by Gary Snyder ( Book )
25 editions published between 1967 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,083 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Danger on peaks : poems by Gary Snyder ( Book )
6 editions published between 2004 and 2006 in English and held by 945 WorldCat member 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

Left out in the rain : new poems, 1947-1985 by Gary Snyder ( Book )
7 editions published between 1986 and 1998 in English and held by 931 WorldCat member 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

Back on the fire : essays by Gary Snyder ( Book )
19 editions published between 2007 and 2010 in English and held by 823 WorldCat member 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

A place in space : ethics, aesthetics, and watersheds : new and selected prose by Gary Snyder ( Book )
12 editions published between 1995 and 2008 in English and held by 765 WorldCat member 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

The best of the best American poetry ( Book )
1 edition published in 2013 in English and held by 735 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
100 poems selected by Robert Pinsky that represent each volume in The best American poetry series

The old ways : six essays by Gary Snyder ( Book )
14 editions published between 1977 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 637 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The selected letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder by Allen Ginsberg ( Book )
11 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and held by 612 WorldCat member 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

He who hunted birds in his father's village : the dimensions of a Haida myth by Gary Snyder ( Book )
12 editions published between 1978 and 2007 in English and Danish and held by 607 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Six sections from Mountains and rivers without end, plus one by Gary Snyder ( Book )
16 editions published between 1965 and 1979 in English and held by 593 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Gary Snyder ( Visual )
7 editions published between 1989 and 2013 in English and held by 386 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Gary Snyder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, reads at the Los Angeles Theatre Center and is interviewed by Lewis MacAdams

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