Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination – A Reading
Gary Snyder
Tuesday, 22 Feb 2005 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Gary Snyder won the Pulitzer Prize for his collection Turtle Island in 1975 and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1992. He has been awarded the Bollingen Poetry Prize and Rober Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award. His other volumes include: The Back Country, Regarding Wave, Axe Handles, The Old Ways and No Nature: New and Selected Poems. Currently, Snyder is a faculty member at the University of California at Davis.
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