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Born in May 8, 1930 / United States / English

Furtherreading

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BOOKS

  • Allen, Donald M., editor, The New American Poetry, Grove (New York, NY), 1960.
  • Almon, Bert, Gary Snyder, Boise State University Press (Boise, ID), 1979.
  • Altieri, Charles, Enlarging the Temple: New Directions in American Poetry during the 1960s, Bucknell University Press (Lewisburg, PA), 1979.
  • American Nature Writers, Volume 2, Scribner (New York, NY), 1996.
  • Charters, Samuel, Some Poems/ Poets: Studies in American Underground Poetry since 1945, Oyez, 1971.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 1, 1973, Volume 2, 1974, Volume 5, 1976, Volume 9, 1978, Volume 32, 1985.
  • Contemporary Poets, 7th edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 2001.
  • Cook, Bruce, The Beat Generation, Scribner (New York, NY), 1971.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, 1980; Volume 16: The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America, 1983; Volume 165: American Poets since World War II, second series, 1996; Volume 212: Twentieth-Century American Western Writers, Second Series, 1999; Volume 275: Twentieth-Century American Nature Writers: Prose, 2003.
  • Faas, Ekbert, editor, Towards a New American Poetics: Essays & Interviews, Black Sparrow Press, 1978.
  • Howard, Richard, Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States since 1950, Atheneum, 1969.
  • Hunt, Anthony, Genesis, Structure, and Meaning in Gary Snyder’s “Mountains and Rivers Without End”, University of Nevada Press, 2004.
  • Kherdian, David, A Biographical Sketch and Descriptive Checklist of Gary Snyder, Oyez, 1965.
  • Leary, Paris and Robert Kelly, editors, A Controversy of Poets, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1965.
  • McCord, Howard, Some Notes to Gary Snyder's "Myths & Texts," Sand Dollar, 1971.
  • McNeill, Katherine, Gary Snyder, Phoenix (New York, NY), 1980.
  • Molesworth, Charles, Gary Snyder's Vision: Poetry and the Real Work, University of Missouri Press, 1983.
  • Rexroth, Kenneth, Assays, New Directions (New York, NY), 1961.
  • Rexroth, Kenneth, American Poetry in the Twentieth Century, Herder & Herder, 1971.
  • Schuler, Robert Jordan, Journeys toward the Original Mind: The Long Poems of Gary Snyder, Lang (New York, NY), 1994.
  • Shaw, Robert B., editor, American Poetry since 1960: Some Critical Perspectives, Dufour (Chester Springs, PA), 1974.
  • Sherman, Paul, Repossessing and Renewing, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 1976.
  • Snyder, Gary, The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979, edited and with introduction by Scott McLean, New Directions (New York, NY), 1980.
  • Steuding, Bob, Gary Snyder, Twayne (Boston, MA), 1976.

PERIODICALS

  • Alcheringa, autumn, 1972.
  • American Poetry Review, November, 1983.
  • American West, January-February, 1981; Volume 25; August, 1988, p. 30.
  • Austin American-Statesman, October 11, 2001, Mary Alice Davis, "The Gentle Message of a Poet," p. A17.
  • Beloit Poetry Journal, fall-winter, 1971-72.
  • Booklist, September 15, 1996, Ray Olson, review of Mountains and Rivers without End, p. 205; June 1, 1999, Ray Olson, review of The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations, 1952-1998.
  • Boundary II, Volume 4, 1976.
  • Colorado Quarterly, summer, 1968.
  • Contemporary Literature, spring, 1977; winter, 1998, Timothy G. Gray, "Semiotic Shepherds: Gary Snyder, Frank O'Hara, and the Embodiment of an Urban Pastoral," p. 523.
  • Critical Quarterly, winter, 1973.
  • Criticism, spring, 1977.
  • Denver Quarterly, fall, 1980.
  • Environment, December, 1996, Kenneth A. Ollif, review of A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds, p. 25.
  • Epoch: A Magazine of Contemporary Literature, fall, 1965.
  • Explicator, fall, 2001, M. Bennet Smith, review of The Call of the Wild, p. 47.
  • Far Point, Volume 4, 1970.
  • Georgia Review, summer, 1992, p. 382.
  • Holiday, March, 1966.
  • Iowa Review, summer, 1970.
  • Journal of Modern Literature, Volume 2, 1971-72; summer, 1999, Anthony Hunt, "Singing the Dyads: The Chinese Landscape Scroll and Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers without End," p. 7.
  • Kansas Quarterly, spring, 1970.
  • Library Journal, July, 1999, Cynde Bloom Lahey, review of The Gary Snyder Reader, 1952-1998, p. 91; November 15, 2004, Rochelle Ratner, review of Danger on Peaks: Poems, p. 64.
  • Los Angeles Times, November 28, 1986.
  • Los Angeles Times Book Review, July 1, 1979; November 23, 1980; November 13, 1983; December 28, 1986.
  • Minnesota Review, fall, 1971.
  • Nation, September 1, 1969; November 19, 1983.
  • New Republic, April 4, 1970; March 24, 1997, Christopher Benfey, review of Mountains and Rivers without End, p. 38.
  • New Statesman, November 4, 1966.
  • New York Review of Books, January 22, 1976; April 11, 1991, p. 29.
  • New York Times Book Review, May 11, 1969; June 8, 1969; March 23, 1975; December 27, 1992, p. 2.
  • New York Times Magazine, October 6, 1996, p. 62.
  • Partisan Review, summer, 1969; winter, 1971-72.
  • Poetry, June, 1971; June, 1972; September, 1984; June, 1994, p. 167.
  • Prairie Schooner, winter, 1960-61.
  • Progressive, November, 1995, p. 28.
  • Publishers Weekly, August 17, 1990, p. 62; August 10, 1992, p. 58; July 31, 1995, p. 62; August 26, 1996, p. 94; May 31, 1999, review of The Gary Snyder Reader, p. 87; October 18, 2004, review of Danger on Peaks, p. 61.
  • Reviewer's Bookwatch, October, 2005, Carol Volk, review of Danger on Peaks.
  • Sagetrieb, spring, 1984.
  • San Francisco Chronicle, September 1, 1996, Tom Clark, review of Mountains and Rivers without End, p. 1; Jesse Hamlin, interview with Gary Snyder, p. 30.
  • Saturday Review, October 11, 1969; April 3, 1971.
  • Seattle Times, July 11, 1999, Richard Wallace, review of The Gary Snyder Reader, 1952-1998, p. M9.
  • Sierra, March-April, 1997, Scott McLean, review of Mountains and Rivers without End and A Place in Space, p. 112.
  • Sixties, spring, 1962; spring, 1972.
  • Southern Review, summer, 1968.
  • Southwest Review, spring, 1971; winter, 1976; spring, 1982.
  • Spectator, December 25, 1971.
  • Sulfur 10, Volume 4, number 1, 1984.
  • Tamkang Review, spring, 1980.
  • Times Literary Supplement, December 24, 1971; May 30, 1980.
  • Village Voice, November 17, 1966; May 1, 1984.
  • Washington Post Book World, December 25, 1983.
  • Western American Literature, fall, 1968; spring, 1980; fall, 1980; spring, 1981.
  • Western Humanities Review, spring, 1975.
  • Whole Earth Review, winter, 1988, p. 22; spring, 1991, p. 80; spring, 1996, p. 7; summer, 1997, Rick Fields, review of Mountains and Rivers without End, p. 91; winter, 1997, review of Turtle Island, A Place in Space, and The Practice of the Wild, p. 59; fall, 2000, William Pitt Root, review of The Gary Snyder Reader, p. 98.
  • World Literature Today, summer, 1984; spring, 1997, Bernard F. Dick, review of Mountains and Rivers without End, p. 392.
  • Yale Review, July, 1997, Stephen Burt, review of Mountains and Rivers without End, p. 150.