Poetry
Poet Gary Snyder: West Coast Sensibility and Traditional Chinese Lyrics
May 20, 2010|7:00pm
200 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA, United States200 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
Asian Art Museum | 200 Larkin Street| San Francisco, CA
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Join us for a rare opportunity to hear lauded poet Gary Snyder read his poetry in person! Snyder’s amazing poetry and the beautiful Asian Art Museum will make this an unforgettable event. Snyder has translated numerous classical Chinese poems and is particularly well-known internationally for his translations of the Tang hermit poet Han Shan (“Cold Mountain”). Snyder lived over ten years in Kyoto, Japan where he studied Zen Buddhism at Daitoku-ji Temple.
Author
Gary Snyder
Best known as a poet and prose writer, Gary Snyder is the author of more than seventeen books, translated into more than twenty languages, and is professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992 and 2005, he has won numerous other awards. Snyder is also a translator of a number of classical Chinese poems and is best known for his translations of the Tang dynasty hermit poet Han Shan (“Cold Mountain”). He lived for more than ten years in Kyoto, Japan, where he studied Zen Buddhism.