Snyder, Gary (Vol. 9) - Snyder, Gary 1930–
Snyder, Gary 1930–
An American poet and translator, Snyder was once affiliated with the "beat" poets of San Francisco. His early work reflected his love of the natural beauty and heritage of the Pacific Coast: the Sierra Nevadas and the rituals of western Indian tribes are among the subjects of his early poems. Since then Snyder's interests in fields as diverse as Zen Buddhism and forestry have given him inspiration for his poetry. These interests have coalesced to create a poetry that expresses the strivings of the human soul to seek the internal peace and integration that is mirrored in the wilderness. His poetic language possesses a powerful quality, and his verse is sensitively structured. Snyder won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974. (See also CLC, Vols. 1, 2, 5, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 17-20, rev. ed.)
Snyder is a lucid and intense didact, and wonderfully graceful, never pompous, rarely self-congratulatory, though he has taken...
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