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No Nature
New and Selected Poems
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder is an American poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), as well as an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist (frequently described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology". Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. Snyder has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder served as a faculty member at the University of California, Davis, and he also served for a time on the California Arts Council.
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The Etiquette of Freedom
Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and The Practice of the Wild
Jim Harrison, Gary Snyder, Paul Ebenkamp
Gary Snyder joined his old friend, novelist Jim Harrison, to discuss their loves and lives and what has become of them throughout the years. Set amidst the natural beauty of the Santa Lucia Mountains, their conversations—harnessing their ideas of all...
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The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder
Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder
One of the central relationships in the Beat scene was the long-lasting friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Ginsberg introduced Snyder to the East Coast Beat writers, including Jack Kerouac, while Snyder himself became the model for the...
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Passage Through India
An Expanded and Illustrated Edition
Gary Snyder
In 1962, after studying Buddhism in Japan, Gary Snyder, with his former wife, the poet Joanne Kyger, joined Allen Ginsberg and his companion Peter Orlovsky for a long trip to India “to see the hearth-land of the Buddha’s teachings.” Snyder kept...
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A Place in Space
Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds
Gary Snyder
In this classic collection of 29 pieces that span half a century, Gary Snyder explores humans’ complex, ever-evolving attitudes toward the environment. He argues that nature is not separate from humanity, but intrinsic to it, and that since societies...
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Left Out in the Rain
Poems
Gary Snyder
Inspired by the ancient Chinese proverb, "There's nothing you can own that can't be left out in the rain," this collection charts the journeys of the poet from 1947 to 1985. This book is unique among Gary Snyder's numerable works, and the poems...
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Danger on Peaks
Poems
Gary Snyder
As a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, bioregional activist, Zen Buddhist, and reluctant counterculture guru, Gary Snyder has been a major artistic force in America for over five decades, extending far beyond the Beat poems that first brought his work into...
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Look Out
A Selection of Writings
Gary Snyder
Personal favorites selected by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet himself. Beginning with the publication of The Back Country in 1968, Gary Snyder's long-cherished association with New Directions continued through the publication of his poetry books...
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Myths and Texts
Gary Snyder
First published in 1960. The poet's primeval devotion to the land and to work shapes his texts and creates his myths.
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Turtle Island
Gary Snyder
Turtle Island won Gary Snyder the Pulitzer back in 1975, and remains, to this observer, his most completely realized work. The title comes from a Native American term for the continent of North America, and Snyder wants to reclaim the organic and...
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The Back Country
Gary Snyder
The Back Country is one of Gary Snyder's most serious engagements with Eastern culture and thought. Much of the book works to achieve a perspective by means of contrast, as in "Hitch Haiku," a series of haiku (a Japanese form of imagistic, syllabic...
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Earth House Hold
Technical Notes and Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries
Gary Snyder
"Technical notes and queries to fellow dharma revolutionaries." – Gary Snyder
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Foreword by Gary Snyder
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Ring of Bone
Collected Poems (New & Expanded Edition)
Lew Welch
Just released! A new and expanded edition of the classic go-to collection of Lew Welch's poetry, a must for both fans and new readers.
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