Birth Name:

Gary Sherman Snyder

Male

Birth Date:

Thu, May 08, 1930

Time of Birth:

06:12 PM

Place of Birth:

San Francisco, California, United States

Age:

93

Zodiac Sign:

Taurus

Astrology Data:

Sun

17°

Tau

44'

Moon

2°

Lib

8'

Asc

7°

Sco

52'

MC

14°

Leo

17'

About Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American man of letters. Perhaps best known as a poet (his early work has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance); he is also an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist with anarchoprimitivist leanings. He has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology". Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. He has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder was an academic at the University of California, Davis and for a time served as a member of the California Arts Council.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Eliot Weinberger (Winter 1996). "Gary Snyder, The Art of Poetry No. 74". The Paris Review.

• Profile at Poetry Foundation

• Profile at Poets.org

• Snyder talk "Mountains and Rivers without End" at the Smithsonian Museums of Asian art (Audio 1 hr) at 12 July 2008. Talk programme

• Shambhala Sun Magazine article "The Wild Mind Of Gary Snyder" by Trevor Carolan and "Writers and the War Against Nature" by Gary Snyder in Shambhala Sun Magazine

• 2007 Public Access TV interview (Nevada County TeleVision), 61 minutes

• "Gary Snyder" by Bert Almon from the Western Writers Series Digital Editions at Boise State University

• New York Times profile "A Poem, 40 Years Long" 6 October 1996

• Gary Snyder on Art, Anarchy and the Environment (2010 San Francisco Film Society interview)

• Gary Snyder Papers at Special Collections Dept., University Library, University of California, Davis

• Gary Snyder. Letters to Shandel Parks MSS 719. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.

• Records of Gary Snyder are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books

• Western American Literature Journal: Gary Snyder

Birth Chart and Planetary Positions of Gary Snyder

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Gary Snyder: Sun 17 Taurus, Moon 2 Libra, Mercury 2 Gemini, Venus 10 Gemini, Mars 11 Aries, Jupiter 19 Gemini, Saturn 11 Capricorn, Uranus 13 Aries, Neptune 0 Virgo, Pluto 17 Cancer, Asc 7 Scorpio, Mc 14 Leo, Sun Square Midheaven, Moon Trine Mercury, Mercury Square Neptune, Sun Sesquiquadrate Moon, Sun Semi Sextile Jupiter, Sun Sextile Pluto, Moon Semi Sextile Neptune, Moon Semi Square Midheaven, Mercury Semi Square Pluto, Venus Sextile Mars, Venus Quincunx Saturn, Venus Sextile Uranus, Venus Quincunx Ascendant, Venus Sextile Midheaven, Mars Square Saturn, Mars Conjunct Uranus, Mars Trine Midheaven, Jupiter Semi Sextile Pluto, Saturn Square Uranus, Saturn Sextile Ascendant, Saturn Quincunx Midheaven, Uranus Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Uranus Square Pluto, Uranus Trine Midheaven, Neptune Semi Square Pluto

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