Happy 94th Birthday today to the legendary Gary Snyder!
Here’s Gary from the current issue of Alta – “Why I Write – Turn Off The Calculating Mind” – (Gary Snyder’s Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems and The Practice of the Wild are the California Book Club’s May 2024 selections)
“Writing Directly, Writing Locally” – Alta‘s Anita Felicelli introduces the subject.
“Each Word A Rock” – Daegan Miller, and “Whole In The Wilderness”– Lisa Teasley (on The Practice of the Wild)
Here’s an excerpt from The Practice of the Wild
Here’s an excerpt from Riprap
****Please note California Book Club will be presenting May 16, (5.00 pm PST, 8.00 pm EST), a free, hour-long Zoom event – a conversation on Snyder (led by CBC host John Freeman, with special guests, Rick Bass, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Jane Hirshfield, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Jack Shoemaker, Kim Shuck, and Will Hearst, and including,
we’re thrilled to announce, an appearance by Snyder himself)
For further information and registration information see – here
For more Gary Snyder on The Allen Ginsberg Project – see here – and here – and here