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Edited byAnthony Hunt& Jack Shoemaker (Library of America, hardcover)

Publication Date:June 21, 2022

Publisher Marketing:The first collected edition ofan essential, Pulitzer Prize-winningBeat poet,theindispensable voice whose deep ecological vision and Buddhist spiritualitygrowsmore relevantwith each passingdecade

Gary Snyder is one of Americas indispensable poets, the Thoreau of the Beat Generation and our laureate of Deep Ecology. Now, for the first time, all of Snyders poetry is gathered in a single, authoritative Library of America volume.

Here are all of Snyders published books of poetry spanning a career of almost seventy years. Early collections such asRiprap and Cold Mountain Poems,Myths & Texts, andThe Back Countryreflect his hardscrabble rural upbringing in the Pacific Northwest; his life as a logger, fire-lookout, freighter crewman, carpenter, and trail-blazer; his lifelong interest in Native American oral literatures; and his pioneering studies of Zen Buddhism.

InTurtle IslandandAxe Handlesthe former a winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and the latter the American Book Award in 1984he explores countercultural alternatives to environmental and spiritual decline and envisioning new forms of harmony with nature.