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Conversations with Gary Snyder (Paperback)
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Conversations with Gary Snyder (Paperback)
Series: Literary Conversations Series
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Gary Snyder (b. 1930) is one of the most distinguished American
poets, remarkable both for his long and productive career and for
his equal contributions to literature and environmental thought.
His childhood in the Pacific Northwest profoundly shaped his
sensibility due to his contact with Native American culture and his
early awareness of the destruction of the environment by
corporations. Although he emerged from the San Francisco
Renaissance with such writers as Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan,
and William Everson, he became associated with the Beats due to his
friendships with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, who included a
portrait of Snyder as Japhy Ryder in his novel The Dharma Bums.
After graduating from Reed College, Snyder became deeply involved
with Zen Buddhism, and he spent twelve years in Japan immersed in
study. Conversations with Gary Snyder collects interviews from 1961
to 2015 and charts his developing environmental philosophy and his
wide-ranging interests in ecology, Buddhism, Native American
studies, history, and mythology. The book also demonstrates the
ways Snyder has returned throughout his career to key ideas such as
the extended family, shamanism, poetics, visionary experience, and
caring for the environment as well as his relationship to the Beat
movement. Because the book contains interviews spanning more than
fifty years, the reader witnesses how Snyder has evolved and grown
both as a poet and philosopher of humanity's proper relationship to
the cosmos while remaining committed to the issues that preoccupied
him as a young man.
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