Gary Sherman Snyder was born in San Francisco, California to Harold and Lois Hennessy Snyder. Snyder is of German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestry. His family, impoverished by the Great Depression, moved to King County, Washington, when he was two years old. There they tended dairy cows, kept laying hens, had a small orchard, and made cedar-wood shingles, until moving to Portland, Oregon ten years later. At the age of seven, Snyder was laid up for four months by an accident. "So my folks brought me piles of books from the Seattle Public Library," he recalled in interview, "and it was then I really learned to read and from that time on was voracious — I figure that accident changed my life. At the end of four months, I had read more than most kids do by the time they're eighteen. And I didn't stop." Also during his ten childhood years in Washington, Snyder became aware of the presence of the Coast Salish people and developed an interest in the Native American peoples in general and their traditional relationship with nature.
Writers Uncensored: Gary Snyder: If Trees Could Talk
The Lannan Foundation Presents
Writers Uncensored: Spring 1991
#63
Pulitzer Prize winning poet and Zen scholar Gary Snyder, expands upon his love of nature and wildlife and addresses urgent concerns for the environment.
Run time 28:00
Producer Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr
published: 07 Sep 2016
Gary Snyder at the Brockport Writers Forum
On the day after Nixon's re-election, Gary Snyder talks about poetry, politics, ecology, and eating deer. This is an edited version of a 45-minute interview recorded on November 8, 1972. For more visit brockport.edu/wforum.
published: 28 Sep 2016
Gary Snyder Poet (born May 8, 1930) the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance),
Digital Video/Film by (c) Harold Adler All Rights Reserved
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American man of letters. Perhaps best known as a poet (his early work has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), he is also an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist with anarchoprimitivist leanings. He has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology".[2] Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. He has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder was an academic at the University of California, Davis and for a time served as a member of the California Art...
published: 23 Feb 2021
Modern American Poets 3 Gary Snyder
published: 31 Dec 2020
Northwest Stories: Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, has used the North Cascades as inspiration for his poems. Also, actor Lee Stetson portrays the spirit of John Muir. Muir spent his life battling dams, deforestation and those who would destroy the forests for economic gain.
Airdate: 18 Sept. 2009
published: 28 Sep 2009
NCTV11 Interviews - Gary Snyder
Host Lew Sitzer talks to Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize winning Poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. This interview is one hour long.
NCTV11
Host: Lew Sitzer
The Lannan Foundation Presents
Writers Uncensored: Spring 1991
#63
Pulitzer Prize winning poet and Zen scholar Gary Snyder, expands upon his love of nature an...
The Lannan Foundation Presents
Writers Uncensored: Spring 1991
#63
Pulitzer Prize winning poet and Zen scholar Gary Snyder, expands upon his love of nature and wildlife and addresses urgent concerns for the environment.
Run time 28:00
Producer Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr
The Lannan Foundation Presents
Writers Uncensored: Spring 1991
#63
Pulitzer Prize winning poet and Zen scholar Gary Snyder, expands upon his love of nature and wildlife and addresses urgent concerns for the environment.
Run time 28:00
Producer Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr
On the day after Nixon's re-election, Gary Snyder talks about poetry, politics, ecology, and eating deer. This is an edited version of a 45-minute interview rec...
On the day after Nixon's re-election, Gary Snyder talks about poetry, politics, ecology, and eating deer. This is an edited version of a 45-minute interview recorded on November 8, 1972. For more visit brockport.edu/wforum.
On the day after Nixon's re-election, Gary Snyder talks about poetry, politics, ecology, and eating deer. This is an edited version of a 45-minute interview recorded on November 8, 1972. For more visit brockport.edu/wforum.
Digital Video/Film by (c) Harold Adler All Rights Reserved
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American man of letters. Perhaps best known as a poet (his earl...
Digital Video/Film by (c) Harold Adler All Rights Reserved
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American man of letters. Perhaps best known as a poet (his early work has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), he is also an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist with anarchoprimitivist leanings. He has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology".[2] Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. He has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder was an academic at the University of California, Davis and for a time served as a member of the California Arts Council.
Digital Video/Film by (c) Harold Adler All Rights Reserved
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American man of letters. Perhaps best known as a poet (his early work has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), he is also an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist with anarchoprimitivist leanings. He has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology".[2] Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. He has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder was an academic at the University of California, Davis and for a time served as a member of the California Arts Council.
Gary Snyder, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, has used the North Cascades as inspiration for his poems. Also, actor Lee Stetson portrays the spirit of Joh...
Gary Snyder, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, has used the North Cascades as inspiration for his poems. Also, actor Lee Stetson portrays the spirit of John Muir. Muir spent his life battling dams, deforestation and those who would destroy the forests for economic gain.
Airdate: 18 Sept. 2009
Gary Snyder, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, has used the North Cascades as inspiration for his poems. Also, actor Lee Stetson portrays the spirit of John Muir. Muir spent his life battling dams, deforestation and those who would destroy the forests for economic gain.
Airdate: 18 Sept. 2009
Host Lew Sitzer talks to Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize winning Poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. This interview is one hour long.
NCTV11
Hos...
Host Lew Sitzer talks to Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize winning Poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. This interview is one hour long.
NCTV11
Host: Lew Sitzer
Host Lew Sitzer talks to Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize winning Poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. This interview is one hour long.
NCTV11
Host: Lew Sitzer
The Lannan Foundation Presents
Writers Uncensored: Spring 1991
#63
Pulitzer Prize winning poet and Zen scholar Gary Snyder, expands upon his love of nature and wildlife and addresses urgent concerns for the environment.
Run time 28:00
Producer Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr
On the day after Nixon's re-election, Gary Snyder talks about poetry, politics, ecology, and eating deer. This is an edited version of a 45-minute interview recorded on November 8, 1972. For more visit brockport.edu/wforum.
Digital Video/Film by (c) Harold Adler All Rights Reserved
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American man of letters. Perhaps best known as a poet (his early work has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), he is also an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist with anarchoprimitivist leanings. He has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology".[2] Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. He has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder was an academic at the University of California, Davis and for a time served as a member of the California Arts Council.
Gary Snyder, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, has used the North Cascades as inspiration for his poems. Also, actor Lee Stetson portrays the spirit of John Muir. Muir spent his life battling dams, deforestation and those who would destroy the forests for economic gain.
Airdate: 18 Sept. 2009
Host Lew Sitzer talks to Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize winning Poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. This interview is one hour long.
NCTV11
Host: Lew Sitzer
Gary Sherman Snyder was born in San Francisco, California to Harold and Lois Hennessy Snyder. Snyder is of German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestry. His family, impoverished by the Great Depression, moved to King County, Washington, when he was two years old. There they tended dairy cows, kept laying hens, had a small orchard, and made cedar-wood shingles, until moving to Portland, Oregon ten years later. At the age of seven, Snyder was laid up for four months by an accident. "So my folks brought me piles of books from the Seattle Public Library," he recalled in interview, "and it was then I really learned to read and from that time on was voracious — I figure that accident changed my life. At the end of four months, I had read more than most kids do by the time they're eighteen. And I didn't stop." Also during his ten childhood years in Washington, Snyder became aware of the presence of the Coast Salish people and developed an interest in the Native American peoples in general and their traditional relationship with nature.