Pulitzer Prize winning poet, social and particularly environmental activist, and general all around Zen person, Gary Snyder was born on this day in 1930.
The “poet laureate of deep ecology” is eighty-five.
May he celebrate many more birthdays among us…
Here Gary reflects on Jack Kerouac and a bit on the novel Dharma Bums, which as nearly everyone knows features Gary under the name Japhy Rider.
And, then reading his own poem Riprap.
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