Beat hero, steward of the earth, Zen Buddhist, and poet Gary Snyder turns 90 on May 8. He looks back on an honorable life at the leading edge.
Smokey the Bear Sutra
In 1969, poet Gary Snyder wrote his “Smokey the Bear Sutra,” imagining Smokey as the Great Sun Buddha giving a discourse, in the style of a Buddhist sutra. Fifty years later, the message of the sutra continues to resonate.
“Mars” series author Kim Stanley Robinson on bringing science, Buddhism together
“Literature is my religion,” says Kim Stanley Robinson. “The novel is my way of making sense of things.”
Review: This Present Moment
Andrea Miller reviews This Present Moment, by Gary Snyder.
Writers and the War Against Nature
Zen practitioner Gary Snyder traces his lifelong commitment to the environment and calls on all creative people to rise in its defense.
The Wild Mind of Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder, San Francisco, 1958. (Photo by Harry Redl, from terebess.hu)For the nineties, the celebrated Beat rebel advocates “wild mind,” neighborhood values and watershed politics.
Not Here Yet
Photo by Phil Roussin.Remarks by Gary Snyder on Buddhism, Ecology & the Poetics of Homelessness.