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 Timeline of Gary Snyder

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Influences From Childhood:

Gary had many influences that led him to write poetry and also what his poetry focused on. His family lived in poverty during the great depression. As a result, when Snyder was only two years old, they moved to Kitsap County, Washington to work on a dairy farm and sell wood shingles. It was in Washington Snyder had an accident that left him bed ridden for four months. He had nothing to do but read and he soon became interested in Native American culture and their love and respect for the natural world around them. With a scholarship, Snyder began attending Reed University in 1947, where his very first poems were published in student journals. During the summer he worked as a seaman in order to experience travel and learn about different cultures. In 1951 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology and literature. He then set out to work in forestry as a timber-scaler on a Native American reservation. Much of his poetry is very strongly influenced by his time there, working in nature.

Influence:

Gary wrote many poems focusing on life, relationships and emotions. The style was lyrical and sometimes took on a spiritual tone. Overtime, the subjects of his poetry turned to both family and the community around him. Social critique was also often a part of his work. His poem “Turtle Island,” is a book of poems about the North American continent, its people and its inhabitants. It often speaks of the environment and how there was once a harmony between man and the earth. Critics and fans consider the book a staple of 20th century poetry. Gary’s style has influenced authors like Aldous Huxley, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, and Karl Hess. During Gary’s years as a college professor, he inspired a whole new generation of writers looking for their voice. Also, many of his essays are now college curriculum.

Awards:

Gary and his works were given many awards throughout his life. Some of these works included… No Nature: New and Selected Poems (1993), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; The Practice of the Wild (1990); Left Out in the Rain, New Poems 1947-1985; Axe Handles (1983), for which he received an American Book Award; Turtle Island (1974), which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry; Regarding Wave (1970); and Myths & Texts (1960). He received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Bollingen Prize, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Bess Hokin Prize and the Levinson Prize from Poetry, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Times, and the Shelley Memorial Award. Snyder was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2003.

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The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations, 1952-1998, 2000

__//**Nonfiction**//__ Earth House Hold: Technical Notes and Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries, 1969

The Old Ways, 1977

He Who Hunted Birds in His Father’s Village: The Dimensions of a Haida Myth, 1979

The Real Work: Interviews and Talks, 1964-1979,

1980 Passage Through India, 1983 (expanded 2007)

The Practice of the Wild, 1990

A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds, 1995

Gary Snyder Papers, 1995

Back on the Fire: Essays, 2007

The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, 2009 (Bill Morgan, editor)

__//**Poetry**//__ Riprap, 1959

Myths and Texts, 1960

Hop, Skip, and Jump, 1964

Nanao Knows, 1964

The Firing, 1964

Riprap, and Cold Mountain Poems, 1965

Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers Without End, 1965

A Range of Poems, 1966

Three Worlds, Three Realms, Six Roads, 1966

The Back Country, 1967

Sours of the Hills, 1969

The Blue Sky, 1969

Regarding Wave, 1969, enlarged 1970

Manzanita, 1972

The Fudo Trilogy: Spell Against Demons, Smokey the Bear Sutra, The California Water Plan, 1973

Turtle Island, 1974

All in the Family, 1975

Axe Handles, 1983

Left Out in the Rain: New Poems, 1947-1986, 1986

No Nature: New and Selected Poems, 1992

Mountains and Rivers Without End, 1996

Danger on Peaks, 2004

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Hey! Look at the Social, Pol﻿itical, and Economic Chart! · Gary was also a member of the Beat Generation, which were people interested in Eastern Religion, non-materialistic, and experimented with sexuality · While living in Washington as a child, he had nothing to do but read and he soon became interested in Native American culture and their love and respect for the natural world around them · Also, he went to Japan to study religion · Gary was also a member in the San Francisco Renaissance movement. · Gary is not only associated with the beats, but also with Black Mountain Poetry. He has been called the modern-day Henry David Thoreau. He has been described as an eco-poet and an eco-warrior. · The Deep Ecology Movement that Gary co-founded was responded by the eco-feminists who criticized them that the movement was too broad and general. · Gary travels from to different destinations to give speeches and talk about the environment and his poems. || · Gary, along with other comrades, · The Deep Ecology movement has had broad and general influence for political parties by providing an independent ethical platform. · Some critics believed that Gary Snyder was an anarchist and believed Western Governments should be reformed. · Gary has spoken as a representative for environmentalists at United Nation conferences, and other conferences. || · He was born towards the end of the Great Depression · Gary held many jobs in forests and in different state parks. · Gary read a lot of Karl Marx’s works and he agrees with him in some aspects, but looking down upon so-called primitive people, and for not fully understanding the effects of capitalism on nature and its effect on the wild. ||          Think you know everything about Gary? Take this quiz and find out! media type="custom" key="8757148" Works Cited: Britton, Wesley. "Gary Snyder." Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition (2003): 1-2. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. Web. 7 Mar. 2011.
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Bloom, Harold, and Crunk. "The Work of Gary Snyder." Bloom's Modern Critical Views: Contemporary Poets (1986): 357-369. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. Web. 7 Mar. 2011.

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Snyder, Gary. Dimensions of a Life. Ed. Jon Halper. San Francisco : Sierra Club, 1991. Print.