Gary Snyder, Author . Shoemaker & Hoard $24 (167p) ISBN 978-1-59376-137-0
Poet and essayist Snyder, a Pulitzer and National Book Award winner, has been a committed environmentalist and student of East Asian thought for decades. For almost as long, he has lived in the Sierra Nevada, where he saw the changes in attitudes...
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Gary Snyder. Counterpoint (PGW, dist.), $24 (96p) ISBN 978-1-61902-524-0
Snyder (Nobody Home), a Zen Buddhist and 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner who has been writing poetry and prose for over 50 years, continues to address themes present in much of his work. He focuses on his travels, the wonders of history, and the...
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Gary Snyder and Julia Martin. Trinity Univ. (PGW, dist.), $18.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-59534-251-5
Thirty years ago Martin, then a South African graduate student, wrote award-winning poet, essayist, and environmental activist Snyder (No Nature). His gracious reply to her fearlessly detailed questions about his writing sparked a long-distance...
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Gary Snyder, Author . Shoemaker & Hoard $22 (112p) ISBN 978-1-59376-041-0
In his first gathering of new poetry since the 1996 book-length poem Mountains and Rivers Without End
, Snyder seeks a kind of fraught peace, which he cannot sustain; the book begins and ends in upheaval. A mostly prose sequence recalls the recent...
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Gary Snyder, Author Pantheon Books $16.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-679-74252-4
This first selected edition of Snyder's poetry offers an overview of a career spanning more than 30 years, from his emergence as a poet of the Beat Generation to his eventual focus on nature and environmentalism. (Sept.)
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Gary Snyder, Author Pantheon Books $25 (390p) ISBN 978-0-679-41385-1
This first selected edition of Snyder's poetry offers an overview of a career spanning more than 30 years. Although he first came to prominence as a poet of the Beat Generation, Snyder's focus on nature and environmentalism has given his work a new...
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Gary Snyder, Author North Point Press $15.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-86547-267-9
Firmly rooted in the California tradition in American poetry, Snyder has a ponytail, spent time in a Japanese Zen monastery, knows Oriental and Amerindian poetry and philosophy and lives off the land in a 1960s manner. Although his Pulitzer-prize...
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Gary Snyder, Author North Point Press $29.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-86547-453-6
Essayist and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Snyder ( Turtle Island ) offers nine sensitive and thoughtful essays blending his personal Buddhist beliefs, respect for wildlife and the land, and fascination with language and mythic tradition into a ``medit
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Gary Snyder, Author Counterpoint LLC $25 (272p) ISBN 978-1-887178-02-0
In these essays, manifestos, reviews and talks from the past four decades, poet/environmentalist Snyder sets forth individual initiatives to foster an ecologically sound society because ``humanity has become a locust-like blight on the planet that...
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Gary Snyder, Author Counterpoint LLC $20 (176p) ISBN 978-1-887178-20-4
A magnificent achievement, this epic poem belies the common take that Snyder's poetic career is notable mainly in the past tense and is refracted by the works of others. Without doubt, Snyder's exploration of nature, Zen Buddhism and his travels...
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Gary Snyder, Author Counterpoint LLC $17 (272p) ISBN 978-1-887178-27-3
Poet Snyder presents a selection of essays, many concerned with the environment, spanning 40 years. (Sept.)
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Gary Snyder, Author Counterpoint LLC $14.5 (184p) ISBN 978-1-887178-57-0
Snyder was awarded the Bolligen Poetry Prize when this epic poem, 40 years in the making, was published last year. (Oct.)
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Gary Snyder, Author, Jim Dodge, Foreword by Counterpoint LLC $35 (617p) ISBN 978-1-887178-90-7
Beat poet, world traveler, forest-fire lookout, student of Chinese and Japanese, of Zen and Tao, ecological thinker and activist, renderer of folklore and myth, and (most recently) author of the celebrated book-length poem Mountains and Rivers...
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Tom Killion, Author, Gary Snyder, Author . Heyday $50 (143p) ISBN 978-1-59714-097-3
Poet Snyder refers to Mount Tamalpais as “San Francisco’s backyard wilderness.” But Killion’s brief history makes clear that the location has been an integral part of San Francisco’s outdoor culture since the 19th...
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Gary Snyder. Counterpoint, $20 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-64009-577-9
Composed during some of Snyder’s most productive years, these previously uncollected and unpublished works by the Pulitzer Prize–winning Beat poet sing with history, politics, and place, offering new glimpses into Snyder’s verse. “A Curse on the Men
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