Writers Uncensored: Gary Snyder: If Trees Could Talk

The Lannan Foundation Presents
Writers Uncensored: Spring 1991
#63
Pulitzer Prize winning poet and Zen scholar Gary Snyder, expands upon his love of nature and wildlife and addresses urgent concerns for the environment.
Run time 28:00
Producer Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr

[@djdollase]

Gary Snyder: one of the greatest influences on my life as a young man. Good to get back to listening to him…

[@ResoluteWay]

What always strikes me, as a challenge, is how lightly Snyder walks through these bloody, destructive decades.

[@sterlingwalter5971]

Gary is incredible.

[@wangping2857]

thank you, Gary. Miss you. Hope to see you soon, on the Sierra.

[@neilnachum1]

I listened. I missed you at the New Brunswick Unitarian Society August 2021....couldn't get the Zoom account, passwords, so listened to you here.

[@garyhynes]

Wise reflections and great poetry.

[@communitysurplus17]

A positively out there man

[@chinitowon]

This video is a treasure.

[@femmedeplume1]

Thank's a lot from France !

[@jylyhughes5085]

Thank you Gary ....

[@danielalexandermclachlanga3781]

grounded truths shared

[@rd264]

@10 mins and 13 mins et seq. Gary talks about the long complex run of Nature

[@BlantonDelbert]

At the top of page 161 in "Dharma Bums," Kerouac writes "Gary" instead of "Japhy." You know this was intentional. Surely, Kerouac's editor caught this and Kerouac said to let-it-be. Also, I saw a documentary where Gary implies that he never believed that Kerouac didn't rewrite parts of his book. That part of Kerouac is a myth, Jack just typing away and never rewriting. Snyder said that Jack's novels were too "polished" to be first drafts. As Hemingway said, "The first draft of anything is shit." Kerouac rewrote and his editors also made improvements. Indinapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay has the "original" scroll that Kerouac wrote, "On the Road." Mr. Irsay paid $3,000,000 for it. Mr. Irsay had this "original" scroll on public display once but I couldn't make it to see it. It was either a third or fourth draft of it was riddled with mistakes. Also, Mr. Gary Snyder here was a true Buddhist. Kerouac was pretending. Supposedly in the North Carolina passages when Ray Smith is home for Christmas, Kerouac becomes Enlightened. However, Jack was a bad alcoholic. If he was truly Enlightened, he would have naturally given-up the booze. Gary like to drink also but he was never an alcoholic. One last comment. The Beats were never a "Generation." Kerouac was born in 1922, the same year as my Father. This was The Greatest Generation. The people who were raised during the Great Depression and who fought in World War II, either overseas or on the home-front. The Beats were a sub-group of The Greatest Generation. The Beats were the people who did not participate in WWII during the 1940s. The Beats were the first counter-culture. All subsequent counter-cultures originate from the Beats, this includes Ken Kesey's Merry Prankster Acid Head and the Hippies, of course, even though Kerouac tried to distance himself from the Hippies. This also includes such groups as the Black Panthers and the Hell's Angels Harley Davidson Motorcycle Gang and any other non-conforming groups who do not see consumption as the main American activity. Delbert Blanton. Kokomo, Indiana. 4-22-2021 www.amazon.com/Delberts-Bible-Delbert-Blanton/dp/1795081104/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=delbert%27s+bible&qid=1619235618&sr=8-1

[@sterlingwalter5971]

"greatest generation," ? Lol

[@rd264]

too literal. As Ginsberg and Snyder both said, Alvah and Japhy and Ray were fictions, Kerouac's conceptions of friends of course loosely based on them but not biographical. the counter culture was not new nor invented by these fellows. But what is curious is that even educated or so called educated people suppose or insist that they are 'new'. I think thats simple ignorance. As its evident here Snyder knows better. He knows that generally there is no committment, no interest, in history in the US, Who asks what the post war ruckus was built on, who cares what came before? Everything the admen insist, is desperately "new and improved" in the post war. There was a serious counter culture in every generation.

[@georgevincent3909]

I like a sub- culture within the greatest generation. More or less "pacifists" in the sense of not fighting in a war that many agreed upon, but many did not...everyone has this right to not bear arms. Christ believed in an alternative message founded on love and truth. Apparently, he liked to drink as well but was not alcoholic either... my guess ...

[@indionet1]

Gary Snyder

[@junobuckley1997]

trueeeee

[@pakochan9120]

dope!!!!!!!!

[@piers_bellman]

Anyone know where to find the opening music?

[@GrinninPig]

Sun visor Wind shield Rain rake

[@HopiDaze]

Bare-Enuff Island...

[@Joaocruz30]

You (not all its simplest to do a generalisation )Americans are incredible. You do not read you're own writers/commentators/authors. that's why you will have a president that is the epitomized mixture of Macdonalds plus Disney. also believe that 911 was a terrorist attack and Obama( with his dogs the seals or Marines or whatever) killed Osama ibn Laden and also over Ukraine the Boeing 777 from Malaysia airlines was destroyed by a Russian buk whem we all know that 911 was an inside job Osama was already dead and the plane went down by a ucranian Su24 loyal to the government. but you insist on living in ignorance and believing religiously in cnn and fox news.... (pardon me for the bad grammar, syntax and/or structure of my English)

[@Phaxmachine]

you sound like not the best kind of person

[@davidgiesen1880]

Joao, yup.

[@samhammond7575]

I love this thanks lol

[@flowerbaldwin1788]

man what does this have to do with Gary Snyder

[@moooooofy]

here's to gary the biggest hypocrite on the planet

[@Molokai17]

yawn

[@johnnycoyo]

yes you are

[@澈劼]

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