Gary Snyder
Born in San Francisco in 1930, Gary Snyder is one of the leading poets of contemporary American literature. His poetry, emerging from a lifestyle that blends Zen Buddhism and bioregionalism, has had a significant influence on poets since the Beat Generation. Some of his major poetry collections include Riprap and Cold Poems (1965), The Back Country (1968), Turtle Island (1974), Mountains and Rivers Without End (1996), Danger on Peaks (2004), This Present Moment (2015), and Collected Poems(2022).
1930年、サンフランシスコ生まれ。アメリカ現代詩を代表する詩人のひとり。禅仏教と生態地域主義を融合したライフスタイルから生まれる詩は、ビート世代以降の詩人に大きな影響を与えている。代表詩集に、Riprap and Cold Poems (1965) 、The Back Country (1968)、Turtle Island (1974)、The Mountains and Rivers Without End (1996)、Danger on Peaks (2004)、This Present Moment (2015)、Collected Poems (2022)、など。