+ Poetic Convo & Reading w/ hero Gary Snyder +
Legendary poet and naturalist and my personal hero, Gary Snyder in rare one hour+ conversation and reading with free registration via {online streaming service provider}
[Especially nice if you missed, or as a companion to, the tribute to him commemorating an anthology published by the Library of America – or whatever it’s called]
You may know Mr. Snyder from the San Francisco poetry Renaissance, the transpacific poetic connection, sparking various coliving/commune experiences in Japan, translating the Han Shan poems, travels through India and Nepal, homesteading in the Shasta bio-region of California at Kitkitdizze, Pulitzer prize for poetry, dozens of collections of essays – and of course – poetry, oh and working as an oiler on freight ships, as a timber puller, mountain top fire lookout, trail builder, activating with the “wobblies” not to mention fixing all manner of machines, hosting nekkid sauna parties & bringing two intrepid children (now remarkable adults obviously) Gen & Kai into the world with Masa Uehara #AxeHandles
As well as collaborating with &/or inspiring Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Phillip Whalen, Joanne Kryger, Masa Uehara, Carole Koda, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Neal Cassady, Peter Coyote, correspondences with Wendell Berry and Edward Abbey et al and reading at the legendary “Six Poets at Six Gallery” event in San Francisco w/ aforementioned Ginsberg, Whalen + Michael McClure, Phillip Lamanthia, hosted by Kenneth Rexroth (I have a video about this historic event), & most recently his sublime convos & translations with Wang Ping.
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Unsurprisingly, dozens of mixed media artifacts concerning the goodly Mr. Snyder exist throughout this archive including “Postcards from Gravelly Beach” podcast, various Beat lit/trans specific poetry Renaissance video dispatches, musings and meditations about his poetry etc.
Plus, you might enjoy some exhibit artifacts at the Beat Museum in North Beach, San Francisco.
{Various photos of the poet with friends follow, uncredited – with apologies – and unannotated, for decorative purposes only, govern yourself accordingly}