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Born in May 8, 1930 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • Riprap (also see below), Origin Press (San Francisco, CA), 1959.
  • Myths & Texts, Totem Press (New York, NY), 1960, reprinted, New Directions (New York, NY), 1978.
  • Riprap & Cold Mountain Poems (the Cold Mountain poems are Snyder's translations of poems by Han-Shan), Four Seasons Foundation (San Francisco, CA), 1965, reprinted, Shoemaker & Hoard (Washington, DC), 2004.
  • Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers without End, Four Seasons Foundation (San Francisco, CA), 1965, revised edition published as Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers without End, Plus One, 1970.
  • A Range of Poems (includes translations of the modern Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji), Fulcrum (London, England), 1966.
  • Three Worlds, Three Realms, Six Roads, Griffin Press (Marlboro, VT), 1966.
  • The Back Country, Fulcrum (London, England), 1967, New Directions (New York, NY), 1968.
  • The Blue Sky, Phoenix Book Shop (New York, NY), 1969.
  • Regarding Wave, New Directions (New York, NY), 1970.
  • Manzanita, Kent State University Libraries (Kent, OH), 1971.
  • Piute Creek, State University College at Brockport (Brockport, NY), 1972.
  • The Fudo Trilogy: Spell against Demons, Smokey the Bear Sutra, The California Water Plan (also see below), illustrated by Michael Corr, Shaman Drum (Berkeley, CA), 1973.
  • Turtle Island, New Directions (New York, NY), 1974.
  • All in the Family, University of California Library, c. 1975.
  • Smokey the Bear Sutra (chapbook), 1976.
  • Songs for Gaia, illustrated by Corr, Copper Canyon (Port Townsend, WA), 1979.
  • Axe Handles, North Point Press (San Francisco, CA), 1983.
  • Good Wild Scared, Five Seasons Press (Madley, Hereford, England), 1984.
  • Left Out in the Rain: New Poems 1947-1986, North Point Press (San Francisco, CA), 1986, reprinted, Shoemaker & Hoard (Washington, DC), 2005.
  • The Fates of Rocks & Trees, James Linden (San Francisco, CA), 1986.
  • No Nature: New and Selected Poems, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1992.
  • North Pacific Lands & Waters, Brooding Heron Press (Waldron Island, WA), 1993.
  • Mountains and Rivers without End, Counterpoint (Washington, DC), 1996.
  • Danger on Peaks: Poems, Shoemaker & Hoard (Washington, DC), 2004.

PROSE

  • Earth House Hold: Technical Notes and Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries (essays), New Directions (New York, NY), 1969.
  • (Contributor) Ecology: Me, Moving On, 1970.
  • The Old Ways: Six Essays, City Lights (San Francisco, CA), 1977.
  • On Bread & Poetry: A Panel Discussion between Gary Snyder, Lew Welch and Philip Whalen, edited by Donald M. Allen, Grey Fox (Bolinas, CA), 1977.
  • He Who Hunted Birds in His Father's Village (undergraduate thesis), preface by Nathaniel Tarn, Grey Fox (Bolinas, CA), 1979.
  • The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979, edited with introduction by Scott McLean, New Directions (New York, NY), 1980.
  • Passage through India (autobiography), Grey Fox (San Francisco, CA), 1983.
  • The Practice of the Wild, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1990, reprinted, Shoemaker & Hoard (Washington, DC), 2004.
  • A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds (new and selected prose), Counterpoint (Washington, DC), 1995.
  • The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations, 1952-1998, Counterpoint (Washington, DC), 1999.
  • Look Out: A Selection of Writings, New Directions (New York, NY), 2002.
  • Back on the Fire: Essays, Counterpoint (Washington DC), 2007.

OTHER

  • The New Religion (sound recording), Big Sur Recordings, 1967.
  • Gary Snyder Reading His Poems in the Montpelier Room, Oct. 24, 1996, (sound recording) 1996.
  • A Place for Wayfaring: The Poetry and Prose of Gary Snyder / Patrick D. Murphy Oregon State University Press (Corvallis, OR), 2000.
  • (With Tom Killion and John Muir) The High Sierra of California, Heyday Books, 2002.

Contributor to anthologies, including Contemporary American Poetry, edited by Donald Hall, Penguin Books (New York, NY), 1962; A Controversy of Poets, edited by Paris Leary and Robert Kelly, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1965; and Sustainable Poetry: Four American Ecopoets, edited by Leonard M. Scigaj, University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 1999. Contributor to numerous periodicals, including Janus, Evergreen Review, Black Mountain Review, Yugen, Chicago Review, Jabberwock, San Francisco Review, Big Table, Origin, Kulchur, Journal for the Protection of All Beings, Nation, City Lights Journal, Yale Literary Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Poetry. The University of California, Davis, holds a collection of Snyder's manuscripts.