Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder (2007)

Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930 in San Francisco ) is an American writer and environmental activist . He is one of the founding fathers of the Beat Generation .

Life

Gary Snyder grew up in the states of Oregon and Washington . He first studied anthropology at Reed College in Portland and graduated in 1951 with a bachelor's degree . After various activities, including as a seaman, he studied Oriental languages ​​from 1953 to 1956 at the University of California, Berkeley .

During this time he made the acquaintance of authors such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg . Kerouac portrayed him in his novel Dharma Bums (1958) as "Japhy Ryder". Snyder was represented in the anthology Young American Lyric (1961) edited by Walter Höllerer and Gregory Corso . From 1956 to 1964 he stayed in Japan and studied Buddhism there . Eventually he taught at UC Davis .

In 1975 he received the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his book Turtle Island . In 1987 he was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1993 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2003 he was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Snyder lives near San Francisco.

Works

• Myths & Texts (1960)
• Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers Without End (1965)
• The Back Country (1967)
• Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems (1969)
• Regarding Wave (1969)
• Earth House Hold (1969)
• Turtle Island (1974)
• The Old Ways (1977)
• He Who Hunted Birds in His Father's Village: The Dimensions of a Haida Myth (1979)
• The Real Work (1980)
• Ax Handles (1983)
• Passage Through India (1983)
• Left Out in the Rain (1988)
• The Practice of the Wild (1990)
• No Nature: New and Selected Poems (1992)
• A Place in Space (1995)
• Mountains and Rivers Without End (1996)
• The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations (1999)
• Danger on Peaks (2005)
• Back on the Fire: Essays (2007)

Poems in German

• Maya. Poems . Munich 1972. ISBN 3-446-11566-8
• Turtle Island . Berlin 1980. ISBN 3-921547-06-7 , Berlin 2006. ISBN 3-936271-28-3
• The wild song of the fig tree , Göttingen 1997. ISBN 3-923588-43-7
• Riprap . Stadtlichter Presse (Berlin 1999), ISBN 978-3-936271-00-3 . Translation and epilogue by Alexander Schmitz .
• Off track . Translation by Sibylle Klefinghaus and Ralf Zühlke. Afterword by Ingrid & Reinhard Harbaum. Stadtlichter Presse, Berlin 2001. ISBN 978-3-936271-03-4
• Tracks of the blue land. Poems . Göttingen 2004. ISBN 3-923588-64-X
• Danger on the peaks . Berlin 2006. ISBN 3-936271-26-7
• East-west drift. Nine poems and an essay . Göttingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-923588-71-8
• Myths & texts. Afterword and translation by Bernhard Widder. Stadtlichter Presse 2010. ISBN 978-3-936271-40-9

Essays in German

• Lessons of the Wild . Translation by Hanfried Blume. Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-882216-57-8
• Landscapes of Consciousness: Conversations and Speeches . Edited and afterword by Scott McLean. Translation by Christine Kupfer. Munich 1984. ISBN 978-3-923804047

Web links

Commons : Gary Snyder  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Gary Snyder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gary Snyder (wikisource engl.)
• Essay on the ecological awareness and critique of civilization Gary Snyder (English)
• oya-online.de: The poet as a scout . Oya 5/2010, portrait of Gary Snyder
• Grace Yoon , deutschlandfunk.de: Can poetry save the world? Gary Snyder. A portrait . Deutschlandfunk , Das Feature , June 27, 2014