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Gary Snyder
By Felix Pineda
Gary Snyder
- Gary Snyder was born on May 8, 1930, San Francisco, CA
- Eductation
- Ahead of his time
Gary Who?
Childhood
Accident, mom gave books
Grew a penchant for reading and learning about his environment.
Childhood
WWII Human destruction
This experience shaped his ecological consciousness and his concern for the potential destruction of the natural world.
“I figure that accident changed my life, [...] at the end of four months, I had read more than most kids do by the time they're 18. And I didn't stop.” -"The Poet Who Outgrew the Beats"
The man, the myth, the beat poet
- Gary Snyder was one of the original Beat Poets.
- Vulgar language, unconventional during the early 1900s
Beat Poetry
Snyder's Aproach
Creative Approach
Gary took a different approach to Beat Poetry.
In his work, he calls out the failures of American society, which was unheard of at the time.
Gary's Queries
"Piute Creek"
Why is Piute Creek relevant?
What do the rock and the water symbolize?
In what ways does this poem display Snyder's love for nature?
Extra Credit: What do you think of this thought: "A clear, attentive mind has no meaning but that which Sees is truly seen"
A clear, attentive mind
has no meaning but that
which Sees is truly seen.
No one loves rock, yet we are here.
Night chills. A flick
in the moonlight
slips into Juniper shadow:
Back there unseen,
Cold proud eyes
of Cougar or Coyote
Watch me rise and go.
"Piute Creek"
One granite ridge
a tree, would be enough
Or even a rock, a small creek,
A bark shred in a pool.
Hill beyond hill, folded and twisted,
Tough trees crammed
in thin stone fractures.
A huge moon on it all is too much.
The mind wanders. A million
summers, night air still and the rocks
warm. Sky over endless mountains.
All the junk that goes with being human
drops away, hard rock wavers
Even the heavy present seems to fail
this bubble of a heart.
Words and books
like a small creek off a high ledge
Gone in the dry air.
Analysis
Analysis
Piute creek is a river in CA with a bed of rocks, rather than dirt.
Juniper trees represent: resilience, endurance, and adaptability.
Rock and water represent: the stubborn and the flexible.
While humans are complex, nature is simple, and Gary envies simplicity.
The rock and the water demonstrate our society, and the issue of conflict between each side, and how they have begun destroying the other. While in Nature, the water shapes the rock, and the rock guides the water. Ex: Mountains wouldn't exist without Rivers, and rivers wouldn't exist without boundries.
Significance
What was the poems significance?
Why did you choose it?
Fun Fact: We both enjoy meditating alone in nature
What was it's place in American literature?
Signifigance
Influences
- Zen Buddhism
- Native american philosophies
- Greatly admired the Native Americans, same passion for nature as he did.
Ginsberg's influence on Snyder
- Allen Ginsberg had a lasting impact on Gary Snyder works.
- Rawness in poetry
Ginsberg
Tone
- Spectator
- Values directed from experience
- Respect for the land
- He deeply respected all sentient creatures
Tone
These Torrey Pine Teens
A barren white paper, a wasted dead pine tree
Where are the words, only a hand is seen
Computer cold, like people
Where is ChatGPT, useless tool, now.
Tonight, endless, lonely, only if
An uncaring computer would care for me,
Teacher waits, red pen, red eyes
Teens killing trees, why
a Torrey, laments, a Torrey is milled
Snyder’s huge shadow looms over me, now
pressure makes diamonds, and petrifies trees
Teens,
Mindless, blank as pulped pine trees
a word, appears
“ding”
it’s just a text. Not on paper,
friends, far,
poem, far from done
A pencil, near, but more dead wood, it’s just a shaving off time, and of a tree
If only a Torrey tree knew, of me, killing time, over thee.
–Felix Pineda
MY POEM
Sources
Rhys, D. (2021, August 13). Juniper - meaning and symbolism. Symbol Sage. https://symbolsage.com/juniper-meaning-and-symbolism/
Just one breath - tricycle: The Buddhist Review. (n.d.). https://tricycle.org/magazine/just-one-breath/
Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. (2023, May 4). Gary Snyder. Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gary-Snyder
The Attic. (2022, March 3). Gary Snyder -- the poet who outgrew the beats. The Attic. https://www.theattic.space/home-page-blogs/2020/6/4/the-poet-who-outgrew-the-beats
Between Social Ecology and deep ecology: Gary Snyder’s ecological philosophy. The Anarchist Library. (n.d.). https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/paul-messersmith-glavin-between-social-ecology-and-deep-ecology-gary-snyder-s-ecological-philos
Final project: Gary Snyder. Gertrude Stein. (n.d.). https://loguh2010.weebly.com/final-project-gary-snyder.html
The body of my lady, the winding valley spine,
the space between the thighs I reach through,
cup her curving vulva arch and hold it from behind,
a soapy tickle a hand of grail
The gates of Awe
That open back a turning double-mirror world of
wombs in wombs, in rings,
that start in music,
is this our body?
The hidden place of seed
The veins net flow across the ribs, that gathers
milk and peaks up in a nipple—fits
our mouth—
The sucking milk from this our body sends through
jolts of light; the son, the father,
sharing mother’s joy
That brings a softness to the flower of the awesome
open curling lotus gate I cup and kiss
As Kai laughs at his mother’s breast he now is weaned
from, we
wash each other,
this our body