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 natur...

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 que...

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 (1970...

R.S.V.P. A night of wishes coming true By KATHLEEN ARENZ of the Journal Sentinel staff Sunday, April 11, 2004 For children with serious illnesses, every birthday is a wish come true. The Make-A-Wish Foundation can't manufacture birthdays, but it...

Byline: Mike Imrem I'm tired of criticizing baseball and even more tired of hearing criticism of baseball. Direct your gloom toward basketball if you want, your doom toward hockey, your fumes toward football. Baseball? Not even Bud Selig, surly players...