Tracing connections between Gary Snyder and his Romantic and Transcendentalist predecessors - Wordsworth, Blake, Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau - this study explores the tension between urbanization and overindustrialization. The dialectical…

One of the central relationships in the Beat scene was the long-lasting friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Ginsberg introduced Snyder to the East Coast Beat writers, including Jack…

This is a collection of discovery, of insight, and of vision. These poems see the roots of community in the family, and the roots of culture and government in the…

The greatest of living nature poets… . It helps us to go on, having Gary Snyder in our midst .–Los Angeles Times. Snyder is the author of many volumes of…

Two beautifully paired essays, Tawny Grammar and Good, Wild, Sacred, serve to offer an autobiographical framework for Snyder’s long work as a poet, an environmentalist, and a leader of the…

This detailed study – the only comprehensive guide to Snyder’s work – traces his development as a writer, from rising young star of the San Francisco Renaissance to his emergence…

Presents a comparative study of the ninth-century Chinese poet and recluse Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and Gary Snyder, an American poet and environmental activist. This book explains how Chan Buddhism…

In 1997, Mark Gonnerman organized a yearlong research workshop on Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End at the Stanford Humanities Center. Members of what came to be known among…