Read The Guardian’s weekend “Profile” of Gary Snyder.

“Even when it goes unmentioned in the verse itself, the meditative tendency sits behind his work and nature poems. He writes about repairing a car with the same attentiveness he gives to Zen ritual.” – James Campbell, The Guardian (July 16, 2005)

“Snyder is at pains to distinguish his way of life from 'a back-to-the-land, counter-cultural, utopian image of living outside of society. That's all right if you're going to just go like Thoreau did for a year, and you can walk over to Emerson's for dinner. But this is more like what the farm and the ranch in the west is, where people live at a distance, with a certain amount of genuine sustainable skill….'” – by James Campbell, The Guardian (July 16, 2005)