Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder, in full Gary Sherman Snyder, (born May 8, 1930, San Francisco, California, U.S.), American poet often identified with the Beat movement and, from the late 1960s, an important spokesman for the concerns of communal living and ecological activism. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1975. His work obeys a Buddhist immersion in spirituality and nature, and as a translator, he worked mainly on Chinese and Japanese poetry. His books include: Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems (1969), Regarding Wave (1969), Earth House Hold (1969), Turtle Island (1974) y A Place in Space (1995).