Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations
Finalist in CALIBA's 2022 Golden Poppy Book Awards

A collection of previously uncollected and unpublished works by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poet Gary Snyder, written during his most productive and important years


Far from being a simple miscellany of poems, Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations contains some of Gary Snyder’s best work, written during his most productive and important years.

Many of these have been published in magazines or as broadsides, including Spel Against Demons, Dear Mr. President, Hymn to the Goddess San Francisco, Smokey the Bear Sutra, A Curse on the Men in Washington, Pentagon. The collection also includes a great number of translations from Chinese and Japanese poets. Much of this work has been gleaned from journals, manuscripts and correspondence, and never before published in any form.
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Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations
Finalist in CALIBA's 2022 Golden Poppy Book Awards

A collection of previously uncollected and unpublished works by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poet Gary Snyder, written during his most productive and important years


Far from being a simple miscellany of poems, Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations contains some of Gary Snyder’s best work, written during his most productive and important years.

Many of these have been published in magazines or as broadsides, including Spel Against Demons, Dear Mr. President, Hymn to the Goddess San Francisco, Smokey the Bear Sutra, A Curse on the Men in Washington, Pentagon. The collection also includes a great number of translations from Chinese and Japanese poets. Much of this work has been gleaned from journals, manuscripts and correspondence, and never before published in any form.
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Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations

Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations

by Gary Snyder
Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations

Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations

by Gary Snyder

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Finalist in CALIBA's 2022 Golden Poppy Book Awards

A collection of previously uncollected and unpublished works by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poet Gary Snyder, written during his most productive and important years


Far from being a simple miscellany of poems, Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations contains some of Gary Snyder’s best work, written during his most productive and important years.

Many of these have been published in magazines or as broadsides, including Spel Against Demons, Dear Mr. President, Hymn to the Goddess San Francisco, Smokey the Bear Sutra, A Curse on the Men in Washington, Pentagon. The collection also includes a great number of translations from Chinese and Japanese poets. Much of this work has been gleaned from journals, manuscripts and correspondence, and never before published in any form.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781640095786
Publisher: Catapult
Publication date: 08/16/2022
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 112
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

GARY SNYDER is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry and prose. Since 1970, he has lived in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Snyder has also been awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry and the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. His 1992 collection, No Nature, was a National Book Award finalist, and in 2008 he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Snyder is a poet, environmentalist, educator, and Zen Buddhist.

Table of Contents

Editorial Note xiii

Reed College Poems 3

Hymn to the Goddess San Francisco in Paradise 7

The Elwha River 11

A Lion Dream 14

A Curse on the Men in Washington, Pentagon 16

Smokey the Bear Sutra 18

Kumarajiva's Mother 22

Song to the Raw Material 24

Down 25

Swimming Naked in the Yuba River 27

The California Water Plan 28

Greasy Boy 31

"I saw the Mother once" 32

Tomorrow's Song 33

Gold, Green 34

"The delicacy of the mountains" 35

"Emptiness, anti-entropy ultimate" 36

"The dried out winter ricefields" 37

"At Sarnath" 38

Haiku 39

On the train 41

"Nothing at the center" 42

Needles Country of the Canyonlands 43

from "A Single Breath" 46

from "Coming into the Watershed" 47

Ravynes Fly East 48

Daconstruction 49

Mountains Walk on Water 50

from "Allen Ginsberg Crosses Over" 51

from "The Cottonwoods" 52

Where the Sammamish, the Snohomish, and the Skykomish All Come In 53

from "Writers and the War Against Nature" 54

What a life! 55

Nine frags 56

The Dancer Is a Weaver 60

The Goosenecks of the San Juan 61

Where 62

Victoria Falls and Zimbabwe 63

By the Chobe River 67

For Robert Duncan 68

Song for Wrecked Cars 69

After Dögen 70

Having Seen on Earth 71

Bai Juyi's "Long Bitter Song" 73

Long Bitter Song 75

Sixteen T'ang Poems 82

Two Poems by Meng Hao-jan 83

Five Poems by Wang Wei 84

Three Poems for Women in the Service of the Palace 86

Spring View 87

Parting from Ling Ch'e 88

Climbing Crane Tower 89

River Snow 90

Parting with Hsin Chien at Hibiscus Tavern 91

Two Poems Written at Maple Bridge Near Su-chou 92

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