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About Gary Snyder

Timeline (1930 - )

 Gary Snyder, Gary Snyder poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, Beat poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Buddhist poetry

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English
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Themes
  Water
 
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Back Country, by Gary Snyder
Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation, by Carole Tonkinson
Earth House Hold, by Gary Snyder
The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry and Translations, 1952 - 1998, by Gary Snyder
Mountains and Rivers Without End, by Gary Snyder

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All this new stuff goes on top
turn it over, turn it over
wait and water down
from the dark bottom
turn it inside out
let it spread through
Sift down even.
Watch it sprout.

A mind like compost.

 

 

 

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