On Bread & Poetry: A Panel Discussion with Gary Snyder, Lew Welch & Philip Whalen

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Grey Fox Press, 1977 - Poetry - 47 pages

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About the author (1977)

Gary Snyder was born in San Francisco, California on May 8, 1930. He received a B.A. in anthropology at Reed College in 1951. Between working as a logger, a trail-crew member, and a seaman on a Pacific tanker, he was associated with Beat poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso and studied in a Zen monastery in Japan. He wrote numerous books of poetry and prose including Danger on Peaks, Mountains and Rivers Without End, No Nature: New and Selected Poems, The Practice of the Wild, Regarding Wave, and Myths and Texts. He received an American Book Award for Axe Handles and the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Turtle Island. He has also received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Bollingen Prize, the Bess Hokin Prize, the Levinson Prize from Poetry, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the Shelley Memorial Award. In 2012, he received the Wallace Stevens Award for lifetime achievement by the Academy of American Poets.

Bibliographic information

TitleOn Bread & Poetry: A Panel Discussion with Gary Snyder, Lew Welch & Philip Whalen
AuthorsGary Snyder, Lew Welch, Philip Whalen
PublisherGrey Fox Press, 1977
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedJun 6, 2008
ISBN0912516275, 9780912516271
Length47 pages
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