WE HAVE A LIVE ONE! Today we celebrate the 84th birthday of a poet named Gary Snyder. He was born today back in 1930 in San Francisco, and is most recognizable and noted for the Beats Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance. After college he seemed to dive heavily into Native-American and rural-Japanese ideas and cultures. He had even traveled back and forth from California and Japan studying Zen. As a result, he was given the dharma name "Chofu" which stands for "Listen to the Wind."
AWARDS:
- Pulitzer Prize for poetry, 1975
- Bollingen Prize for Poetry, 1997
- John Hay Award for Nature Writing, 1997
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, 2008
QUOTES:
- "Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there."
- "There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea."
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