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May 25, 2011
Books
Gary Snyder wouldn’t mind being identified as the 20th Century and West Coast version of Thoreau.
May 7, 1991
For a certain class of contemporary literary travelers--Westerners, particularly Americans--Japan some time ago surpassed Europe as the favored destination for the Wanderjahr.
Jan. 19, 1992
California
Two cousins of Viacom’s Sumner Redstone say they were roughed up and officers did nothing.
June 10, 2006
In 1955, fresh from his triumph at the Six Gallery in San Francisco where he recited “Howl” to a stunned audience for the first time, Allen Ginsberg showed up with his cohort, Gary Snyder, to read their poems at the University of Washington.
Dec. 27, 1992
Entertainment & Arts
Poets, as few others, must live close to the world that primitive men are in: the world in its nakedness, which is fundamental for all of us--birth, love, death, the sheer fact of being alive.
April 21, 1989
THE HIGH SIERRA OF CALIFORNIA; By Gary Snyder and Tom Killion; Heyday Books / Yosemite Assn.: 128 pp., $50
July 14, 2002
Benefit: Beat icon Gary Snyder, whose nature- inspired poetry won a Pulitzer Prize, will be featured at fund-raiser.
April 12, 1999
Travel & Experiences
Wide enough to keep you looking Open enough to keep you moving Dry enough to keep you honest Prickly enough to make you tough Green enough to go on living Old enough to give you dreams From “Mountains and Rivers Without End” by Gary Snyder.
Sept. 29, 1996
With “Left Out in the Rain,” Gary Snyder gives us 153 poems from his life as a poet, 1947 to 1984.
Dec. 28, 1986