A selective bibliography of 29 active links for Gary Snyder, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Alpers, Paul. A review of What Is Pastoral? (University of Chicago Press, 1996). Reviewed in Comparative Literature, Spring 1998 by Cheney, Donald
Beach, Christopher. Complete text of ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition. (Univ. of California Press, 1992)
Bryson, J. Scott, ed. Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction (Univ. of Utah Press, 2002). Brief blurb on chapters and themes
Campbell, James. "High peak haikus," a profile of Gary Snyder and review of Danger On Peaks (2004). The Observer, July 16, 2005
Gray, Timothy G. "Semiotic Shepherds: Gary Snyder, Frank O'Hara, and the Embodiment of an Urban Pastoral." First page of article only. In Contemporary Literature, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Winter, 1998), pp. 523-559
Gray, Timothy. Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim: Creating Countercultural Community (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2006). Publisher's blurb
Hunt, Anthony. "Singing The Dyads: The Chinese Landscape Scroll and Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End." Journal of Modern Literature, Volume 23, Number 1 (Fall 1999), pp. 7-34
Murphy, Patrick D. A substantial introduction to Gary Snyder from the Literary Encyclopedia, 21 March 2002
Phillips, Rod. Review of "Forest Beatniks" and "Urban Thoreaus": Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Lew Welch, and Michael McClure (Peter Lang Publishing, 2000). Reviewed by Mary Sands in Jack Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2
Selby, Nick. "America as Poem in Gary Snyder's 'Mountains and Rivers Without End' and Susan Howe's 'Secret History of the Dividing Line.'" Journal of American Studies 39 (2005) ("file not available")
Selby, Nick. "Poem as Work-Place: Gary Snyder's Ecological Poetics." Sycamore 1:4 (Winter 1997); rpt. at Modern American Poetry
Suiter, John. An essay about John Suiter's Poets on the Peaks: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalem & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades, "Gary Snyder on Crater Mountain, 1952, " by Noel V. Bourasaw. Skagit River Journal
Suiter, John. A web site for John Suiter's Poets on the Peaks: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalem & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades, provides excerpts from the book, some photos, and information about purchasing it
Whitaker, Thomas R. Suggestions for teaching Gary Snyder's poetry include comparing it to William Carlos Williams, for their similar interest in particulars and how they suggest a pattern and link with the universal. From Heath guides
An introduction to Gary Snyder from Modern American Poetry with the following articles: About Gary Snyder; Chronology; On "Riprap"; On "Straight-Creek--Great Burn" ; On "Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills, Your Body" ; On "I Went Into the Maverick Bar" ; On "Axe Handles" ; A Postmodern Perspective on Gary Snyder--An Essay by Todd Ensign ; Snyder's Ecological Poetics--An Essay by Nick Selby, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois)
A voice in the wilderness - writer Gary Snyder. "Writer Gary Snyder has established a reputation as a poet and ecological philosopher with books such as 'Riprap,' 'Myths and Texts,' 'Earth House Hold.'" In The Progressive, Nov, 1995 by Bob Blanchard
A brief biography from Gary Snyder's UC Davis faculty page. In awarding Gary Snyder the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the judges wrote, "Gary Snyder, throughout a long and distinguished career, has been doing what he refers to in one poem as 'the real work.' 'The real work' refers to writing poetry, an unprecedented kind of poetry, in which the most adventurous technique is put at the service of the great themes of nature and love. He has brought together the physical life and the inward life of the spirit to write poetry as solid and yet as constantly changing as the mountains and rivers of his American--and universal--landscape."
Inventory of the Gary Snyder papers, Special Collections at the Univ. of Calif., Davis
"Reading Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End." Stanford Humanities Conference, 1998
A very brief introduction to Gary Snyder from the Academy of American Poets
A primary and selected secondary bibliography for Gary Snyder, from Dr. Paul P. Reuben's bibliography web site
"The Houseboat Summit," transcript of a 1967 conversation about spiritual change, zen buddhism, the peace movement, the hippy days in San Francisco, and the beats, with Gary Snyder, Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, and Timothy Leary, which took place on Watts's houseboat in Sausilito, Calif
A non-traditional syllabus, from Naropa, for a class focusing on "Philip Zenshin Whalen and Gary Snyder's early processes of artistic synthesis and fusion along with their Buddhist appropriations and assimilations." Contains archival audio clips
Fields, Rick. How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America (Shambhala Publications). Publisher's web site
The history of Circle magazine, an experimental San Francisco publication started in 1944
A site from the Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics contains audio files of lectures given at Naropa by Beat writers. The Naropa Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 3500 recordings made at Naropa since 1974
Hayward, Michael. The publishing history of Beat writers, MA thesis (1991)
Details on the reading "6 Poets at 6 Gallery" in San Francisco, 1955
Professor Larry Smith's timeline for the Beats which puts Beat events in the context of cultural history
Book Collecting: Beat Literature, article by a book collector, Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
Excerpt from A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980, by Steve Clay & Rodney Phillips. Based on the acclaimed 1998 exhibition at The New York Public Library documenting experimental literary publishing in this period. Courtesy of Granary Books (now blocked)
"A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980." Underground Publications Document Poetry's 'Mimeo Revolution' in Exhibition at The New York Public Library, featuring the handmade, experimental publications of work by poets and artists of the period. Press release about a 1998 exhibition at the NY Public Library (removed)
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