Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations

Finalist in CALIBA's 2022 Golden Poppy Book Awards

A collection of previously uncollected and unpublished works by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poet Gary Snyder, written during his most productive and important years

Gary Snyder's long and illustrious career has spanned six decades and more than twenty books, but several of his most influential poems have appeared solely as broadsides or in magazine articles and literary journals. Collecting them for the first time—along with entirely unpublished poems and translations—this book draws from Snyder's most productive and important periods. Gathered together, these pieces expand on a much-beloved body of work while adding new contours and ways of shaping our understanding of a life in the world. Snyder's lifelong commitment to being a steward of nature and an advocate for deep consideration in a time increasingly fixated on shortsighted action is intimately on display in ways rarely seen before.