Happy 95th birthday to Gary Snyder

I read Kerouac's The Dharma Bums in my late teens, and that book sent me down a (pre-internet) Gary Snyder rabbit hole. Snyder's poem "What You Should Know to Be a Poet" remains for me a source of illumination and inspiration.

Happy birthday, Gary Snyder.

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words to ponder 

Happy Birthday to our greatest living poet.

Best of the best and last of his generation.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Snyder

That beautiful man and his beautiful thoughts and words.