Welcoming Gary Snyder by Miriam

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Welcoming Gary Snyder by
Miriam Kelly
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Biography

• Date of Birth May 8, 1930
• Place of Birth San Francisco, CA
• Education Gary Snyder got a BA in Literature and
  one in Anthropology at Reed collage. He studied
  Asian culture and languages at U.C. Berkeley. He
  also learned from Oda Sesso Roshi, a Zen master.
• Jobs Gary Snyder worked at least ten jobs,
  including his current job in the Creative Writing
  Program and the Department of English at U.C.
  Berkeley.
• Influences Japan, the beat group, nature, and
  Zen Buddhism, his religion.
• Gary Snyder had at least four wives. His current
  wife, ( according to http//wwwenglish.ucdavis.edu
  /Faculty/snyder/a brief biography.htm) is Carole
  Coda.
• Gary Snyder had two sons named Gen and Kai, both
  from his marriage to Masa Uehara. He also has
  two step daughters.
• Some people consider Gary Snyder part of the beat
  group, but others, including himself, dont.

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Importance

• Major Awards
• American Academy of Arts and Letters Award
• Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
• Buddhism Transmission Award-1998
• Pulitzer Prize For Poetry- 1970s
• American Book Award- for Ax Handles

• Books
• Number of Books Published 16
• Here are ten that we know of
• The Gary Snyder Reader
• Mountains and Rivers Without End
• No Nature New and Selected Poems
• The Practice of the Wild
• Left Out in the Rain, New Poems
• Myths Texts
• Ax Handles
• Turtle Island

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A Poem By Gary Snyder

• All this new stuff goes on top
• turn it over, turn it over
• wait and water down
• from the dark bottom
• turn inside out
• let it spread through
• sift down even.
• Watch it spout.
• A mind like compost.

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The End

• For more information on Gary Snyder
• http//www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID16
  
• http//www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s
  z/snyder/snyder.htm
• http//www.charm.net/brooklyn/People/GarySnyder.h
  tml
• http//wwwenglish.ucdavis.edu/Faculty/snyder/a
  brief biography.htm
• http//www.rooknet.com/beatpage/writers/snyder.htm
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