Talk:Gary Snyder

Possible Vandalism
Is there vandalism in footnote number 2?

Petr Kopecký, "Nature Writing in American Literature: Inspirations, Interrelations, and Impacts of California Authors on the Deep Ecology Movement" The Trumpeter, Volume 22, Number 2 (2006) ISSN 0832-6193 "[George] Sessions' numerous references to Snyder have not passed unnoticed by other scholars. He Is also a drunk. In his influential study The Idea of Wilderness (1991), Max Oelschlaeger titled the section on Snyder 'Poet Laureate of Deep Ecology.' What is even more striking is that in the footnote, Oelschlaeger confesses that 'Sessions in particular has influenced me to see and read Snyder as the poet laureate of deep ecology.'" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.211.206.7 (talk) 13:36, 19 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Indeed, that was vandalism. I have removed it.  Amazing that it took four years. Thanks! DoctorMatt (talk) 22:35, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Did Gary write this?
This reads like an advertisement for Snyder. Totemtree (talk) 03:38, 16 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Gary is 92 and notably shy about public appearances. it seems incredibly unlikely he cares enough to self-promote on a wiki page. The page might not be overly critical, but author's pages rarely are and he's both a prominent figure in american poetry and has no real controversy (that i know of) surrounding him.  Charlesthe50th, '''  Talk  01:07, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Please add the website link
Hello Doctor Matt, please add the website link to the reference information for reference #2 that we discussed on my talk page. Thanks. Red Rose 13 (talk) 02:51, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Done. DoctorMatt (talk) 05:29, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Japan and India
There is a lengthy section titled Japan and India. I’m not aware of what may have been deleted, for whatever reason. But there’s now next to nothing about India there. This seems odd, because Snyder: published an essay titled “Passage to More than India”; wrote a book (albeit a brief one) titled Passage Through India (both, of course, about the trip there with Joanne Kyger, Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsly); and also has shared thoughts and various insights drawn from the trip. And, as well, Joanne Kyger in her book The Japan and India Journals 1960–1964 (republished under the title Strange Big Moon) discusses the trip. Snyder has also made references to India in some of his interviews.

Anyone have any idea what the situation with this article section is?Joel Russ (talk) 21:19, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Well the section was originally just called "Japan" until 2008 (found through WikiBlame). I don't know anything about Gary Snyder; I'm only at this page due to a number of coincidences involving the "What links here" feature. . Graham87 (talk) 06:58, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Sugesting an image addition
I'd suggest an image of the youthful Gary Snyder be inserted somewhere in the biographical sections of the article. Possibly near the middle of the Japan and India section, which extends roughly through his 25-40-year-old period.

Snyder public recognition began when it became public knowledge that, in the novel The Dharma Bums (1958), Jack Kerouac had based the protagonist (Japhy Ryder) on his new friend Gary Snyder. As well, in his writing around that time, Alan Watts mentioned Gary as an admired friend. By the early 1960s, through these things and through the publication of his poetry, Snyder had become influential in certain American circles, and to some degree notable.

From the early '60s to the mid '70s, Snyder's poetry & essays had been collected in several books, his poetry & articles had been published in numerous popular & specialized magazines, and interviews with him were showing up frequently here & there. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for one of his poetry books in the mid '70s.

Apart from his work as a University instructor, I'd think his greatest public visibility was probably between about 1965 and 1985. Snyder felt he'd been misguidedly identified with the "Beat Generation" writers; still, some commentators have seemed to see him mainly as a figure in movements of the '50s & '60s. I think that's a limiting view, but Snyder had already made his mark by the time he was 40.Joel Russ (talk) 19:46, 14 February 2024 (UTC)