Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder (1930 - ) Born in San Francisco he began his career in the 1950s as a noted member of the “Beat Generation.” He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for his  book of poetry, ’Turtle Island’. He has lived on and with the land for much of his life and said “I think of my territory as that which I have walked in person and know the weather at a given time of year, know a lot of the critters, and know a lot of the people.” 

How Poetry Comes To Me

It comes blundering over the

Boulders at night, it stays

Frightened outside the

Range of my campfire

I go to meet it at the

Edge of the light

— Gary Snyder