Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), as well as an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist (frequently described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology"). Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. Snyder has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder served as a faculty member at the University of California, Davis, and he also served for a time on the California Arts Council.

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    Kai’s little scrotum up close to his groin,
    the seed still tucked away, that moved from us to him
    Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    No paradise, no fall,
    Only the weathering land
    The wheeling sky,
    Man, with is Satan
    Scouring the chaos of the mind.
    Oh Hell!
    Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    How rare to be born a human being!
    Wash him off with cedar-bark and milkweed
    send the damned doctors home.
    Baby, baby, noble baby,
    Noble-hearted baby
    Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    Or me within her,
    Or him emerging,
    this is our body:
    Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    Our girls get layed by Coyote
    We get along
    just fine.
    The Shuswap tribe.
    Gary Snyder (b. 1930)