Gary Snyder: Collected Poems (LOA #357)

by Gary Snyder, Jack Shoemaker (Editor), Anthony Hunt (Editor)

Overview

Gary Snyder is one of America''s indispensable poets, the ''Thoreau of the Beat Generation'' and the ''laureate of Deep Ecology.'' Now, for the first time, all of Snyder''s poetry is gathered in a single, authoritative Library of America volume. The volume concludes with a generous selection, made by Snyder himself, of previously uncollected poems from little magazines and broadsides; translations from East Asian literatures; and drafts and fragments never before published. Also included are explanatory notes, a detailed chronology of Snyder''s life, and an essay on textual selection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598537215
Publisher:	Library of America
Publication date:	06/21/2022
Pages:	1000
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Born on May 8, 1930, in San Francisco, Gary Snyder grew up in the rural Pacific Northwest. He graduated from Reed College in 1951 with degrees in anthropology and literature, and later studied Japanese and Chinese civilization at Berkeley, returning there to teach in the English Department. After participating in the San Francisco revival, the beginning of the beat poetry movement, Snyder went to Japan in 1955 where he stayed for eighteen months, living in a Zen monastery. He has lived and written and worked in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada since 1969.

Anthony Hunt is the author of Genesis, Structure, and Meaning in Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End (2004). Now retired as professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez, and a former Fulbright scholar and Peace Corps worker, he lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Jack Shoemaker is Founding Editor of Counterpoint Press, publishing the works of Wendell Berry, M.F.K. Fisher, Evan S. Connell, Robert Aitken, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and James Salter, among many others. He has worked with Snyder for over 50 years.