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Gary Snyder Quotes
271 words, approx. 1 pages
 Gary Snyder (born May 8 , 1930 ) is an American poet (originally, often associated with the Beat Generation ), essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Sourced If, after obtaining Buddhahood,...




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Biography of Gary (Sherman) Snyder
8,977 words, approx. 30 pages
 What Gary Snyder brought to the Beat Generation of the mid-1950s and early 1960s he has augmented, reinforced, and intensified for the literary culture of the 1970s and 1980s. From his outset as a poet in the 1950s, Snyder's identification with the...
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Biography of Gary (Sherman) Snyder
6,990 words, approx. 23 pages
 As Wendell Berry writes in his contribution to Gary Snyder: Dimensions of a Life (1991), "One thing that distinguishes Gary Snyder among his literary contemporaries is his willingness to address himself, in his life and in his work, to hard practical...
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Biography of Gary (Sherman) Snyder
4,954 words, approx. 17 pages
 Gary Snyder is one of the most important American poets of the second half of the twentieth century. He has written with eloquence, intellectual power, and mythopoeic grandeur in celebration and defense of the natural world. In his With Eye and Ear...



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Gary Sherman Snyder (1930 – ) American Writer and Poet Summary
591 words, approx. 2 pages Snyder was born in San Francisco but grew up in the Northwest, learning about nature and life in cow pastures and second-growth forests. He earned his B.A. in anthropology at Reed College in Portland and spent some time at other universities,...
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Gary Snyder Summary
22,299 words, approx. 74 pages Gary Snyder (1930–) (Full name Gary Sherman Snyder) American poet, translator, autobiographer, travel writer, and essayist. Snyder’s stature as both a counterculture figure and an innovative mainstream poet places him in an uncommon position...
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Gary Snyder Information
3,906 words, approx. 13 pages
 Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (originally, often associated with the Beat Generation), essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Since the 1970s, he has frequently been...




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 The American Poetry Review
Gary Snyder.(Six Introductions)
05/01/2007: 593 words, approx. 2 pages Since 1956, when he read his poems about the native American trickster Coyote at a reading in San Francisco during which Allen Ginsberg read Part One of Howl, Gary Snyder has been developing a selfless, sensual, landscape-attuned poetry on change and becoming that in...
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 Michigan Quarterly Review
Gary Snyder: Greening Again
01/01/2006: 2,106 words, approx. 7 pages GARY SNYDER: GREENING AGAIN Danger on Peaks. By Gary Snyder. Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker Hoard, 2004. Pp. 112. $22. In one of the more meditative poems of his new collection, "Waiting for a Ride," Gary Snyder says "most of my work, / such as...
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Graying hippies mark 'Be-in' anniversary
1/13/2007: 631 words, approx. 2 pages Their hair, once a symbol of youthful rebellion, is mostly gray. Bodies that writhed with wild abandon when a guru invited them to "Tune in ... turn on ... drop out" now sport stiff knees and age spots."How many of you are on acid right...



Literary Criticism
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Interview by Julie Martin
8,954 words, approx. 30 pages
 In the following interview, Snyder discusses the influence of his past on his work and the evolution of his ideas on nature and Buddhism.
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Critical Essay by Julie Martin
6,986 words, approx. 23 pages
 In the following excerpt, Martin uses feminist theory to analyze Snyder's complex metaphors.
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Critical Essay by Katsunori Yamazato
5,998 words, approx. 20 pages
 In the following essay, Yamazato discusses the way in which Snyder's unique interpretation of Buddhism shapes his poetry.


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