I am 43 years old, and only now - today - have I discovered Mr. Gary Snyder and his writings. Profound. Upsetting. Though-provoking. And more relevant today than ever.
Such a great interview! So glad to see him when he was young! Instantly fell in love with his mind and heart. I invited him to read and lecture at Macalester College in 2017. It went well with the public. The public loves him, deeply, and I understand now why, after this interview. He's 90 now, still vigorous, still sharp, still kind, still handsome! I hope to see him again soon, and spend some time on his mountain. Thank you again, Brockport Writers Forum!
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍 This is the characteristic genius: Sooooo FAR ahead of his time. 50-100 years are n o t h i n g here (see Frederrick Nietzsche and ZEN master OSHO too)
Man! I’m reading a book called the Practice of the Wild by GS. He reminds me of an American Alan Watts. His eloquence, depth of knowledge, and speaking style (hand gestures, for example) are all admirable. He points to the responsibilities we have as individuals and things we can do. I tend to think that breaking our addiction to the ‘dope’ (consumerism, I take it) is already a step in a positive direction.
I attended Brockport many years ago and saw this and many other interviews in their entirety. It is unfortunate that this was edited and even more unfortunate that more of these tapes have not been made available to the general public. These poets profoundly impacted me, and they need to be given their voice again. The collection of tapes is a treasure that should not be lost or forgotten. I only hope someone at Brockport is working at preserving them all.
Hello Daniel Wolf--glad you found this on TH-cam. Yes, we are slowly making all of the interviews available. If you will follow the link in the description and click through to the video archive, we have about 80 of the full interviews posted. The rest (200+, including Snyder) will be posted unedited as we get funding. And yes, we are carefully preserving them. The recordings from the 1960s and 70s are high quality but some need restoration before they can be digitized. --James Whorton, SUNY Brockport English Department
@@brockportwritersforum Hello, and thank you for posting these excerpts from this interview. I just wanted to second what Daniel Wolf said above, and also to ask if any headway has been made with the full Snyder Interview? What other poet could have such an urgent message in this time of environmental crisis (including wildfires in CA, nuclear war & nuclear waste, etc) It's only a TH-cam video, I know, but Snyder's message needs to be heard - who knows what impact it could have? your truly, Ben McConnell
@@crosslegged1979 Thanks for writing. The full Gary Snyder video is not ready yet. Coming soon, I hope. Over the last year we have added about 60 recordings to the archive, available at the link in the description. Believe me, I'm impatient too, but the process is slow and expensive. Jim Whorton, SUNY Brockport Writers Forum
Amazing watching the cigarette smoke drifting upwards as this enthralling interview takes place. Not only is it highly unlikely that we'll ever see such an in-depth discussion of poetry take place on tv again, but we're never again going to see interviewers smoking as they question their guest.
". . . the Anglo invader's mentality - on a continent that they treated as conquered territory . . . " - he was critiquing the colonial mindset that is getting so much attention nowadays. Prescient, indeed.
I am still not sure how Gary is so strongly connected to the Beats when his poetry is so different in the way it's connected to nature. His work seems to capture a completely different attitude or vibe than the other Beats. To me, he is more like Robert Frost than Allen Ginsburg.
Sad to say we have continued down the path of destruction of which he feared.....100's of nuclear power plants, and we are all iPhone and twitter junkies who dont want to lose our fix.
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=1619124930&sr=8-1
Hare Krishna. Śrīla Prabhupada declared America as his fatherland. He, the saint from the Eastern Indian space on this planet knew all the continents. He & Alan Ginsberg were friends, and since they chanted the mantra for this Kali age together, the creeper of devotional love, universally available has grown and flourished. So much so that wars will diminish with the propagation of this blossoming garden. The unwanted human traits will be purified via the sacred name of Krishna or God. Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare
It has been on a U-matic studio master in the archives on the Brockport Writers Forum. More to come! We are slowly digitizing the whole series. Robert Hayden, Grace Paley, Isaac B Singer...
@@brockportwritersforum wonderful! I gave a reading there in 2019, and did an interview with Ralph Black. Would love to see that soon. Thanks for doing this.
@@wangping2857 Yes, I remember--I believe you were here in 2008 too. Really enjoyed having you, and I hope to have the interview online soon. COVID has slowed down the process of posting these recent interviews.
I am 43 years old, and only now - today - have I discovered Mr. Gary Snyder and his writings. Profound. Upsetting. Though-provoking. And more relevant today than ever.
He has been WAY ahead of his time . . . at least 50-100 years I think. Such a GREAT personality . . .
What do you recommend starting with, I just bought turtle island
Hoo Japhy! Wild, wise and wonderful Gary Snyder-gift to humanity x
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍 so nice teo see him living.
Snyder's poetry is embodied with the deepest love towards the natural environment - the planet and its all inhabitants.
Such a great interview! So glad to see him when he was young! Instantly fell in love with his mind and heart. I invited him to read and lecture at Macalester College in 2017. It went well with the public. The public loves him, deeply, and I understand now why, after this interview. He's 90 now, still vigorous, still sharp, still kind, still handsome! I hope to see him again soon, and spend some time on his mountain. Thank you again, Brockport Writers Forum!
I love this interview too.
Ah yes 2008!
his ideas were so fully developed by this stage.. amazing
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍 This is the characteristic genius: Sooooo FAR ahead of his time. 50-100 years are n o t h i n g here (see Frederrick Nietzsche and ZEN master OSHO too)
Man! I’m reading a book called the Practice of the Wild by GS. He reminds me of an American Alan Watts. His eloquence, depth of knowledge, and speaking style (hand gestures, for example) are all admirable.
He points to the responsibilities we have as individuals and things we can do. I tend to think that breaking our addiction to the ‘dope’ (consumerism, I take it) is already a step in a positive direction.
I attended Brockport many years ago and saw this and many other interviews in their entirety. It is unfortunate that this was edited and even more unfortunate that more of these tapes have not been made available to the general public. These poets profoundly impacted me, and they need to be given their voice again. The collection of tapes is a treasure that should not be lost or forgotten. I only hope someone at Brockport is working at preserving them all.
Hello Daniel Wolf--glad you found this on TH-cam. Yes, we are slowly making all of the interviews available. If you will follow the link in the description and click through to the video archive, we have about 80 of the full interviews posted. The rest (200+, including Snyder) will be posted unedited as we get funding. And yes, we are carefully preserving them. The recordings from the 1960s and 70s are high quality but some need restoration before they can be digitized. --James Whorton, SUNY Brockport English Department
@@brockportwritersforum Hello, and thank you for posting these excerpts from this interview. I just wanted to second what Daniel Wolf said above, and also to ask if any headway has been made with the full Snyder Interview? What other poet could have such an urgent message in this time of environmental crisis (including wildfires in CA, nuclear war & nuclear waste, etc) It's only a TH-cam video, I know, but Snyder's message needs to be heard - who knows what impact it could have? your truly, Ben McConnell
@@crosslegged1979 Thanks for writing. The full Gary Snyder video is not ready yet. Coming soon, I hope. Over the last year we have added about 60 recordings to the archive, available at the link in the description. Believe me, I'm impatient too, but the process is slow and expensive. Jim Whorton, SUNY Brockport Writers Forum
What a cool thing to have on the internet now!! Gary is a unique person
Amazing watching the cigarette smoke drifting upwards as this enthralling interview takes place. Not only is it highly unlikely that we'll ever see such an in-depth discussion of poetry take place on tv again, but we're never again going to see interviewers smoking as they question their guest.
"Speak it with vigor". I have a better understanding now. Thank you for posting this.
Same. ✌
Japhy the Zen Master!
Snyder is very wise. His critique of capitalism and predictions about the direction of the US were right on.
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍He has been WAY ahead of his time . . . at least 50-100 years I think. Such a GREAT personality . . .
". . . the Anglo invader's mentality - on a continent that they treated as conquered territory . . . " - he was critiquing the colonial mindset that is getting so much attention nowadays. Prescient, indeed.
My first poetry reading, Berkeley California, when Turtle Island was published. I learned the difference between reading and hearing poetry.
gary snyder, thank you very much.
6:30. As a “working man” myself, but also a lover of the natural world, I too often feel myself caught in the duality that Gary speaks of here.
I lectured with this dude in Hong Kong.
Could you even CONCEIVE of having something like this on TV these days.
Happy 89 birthday big man !
Thank you
The pointing and adjustments that take place at 7:00 into this film, right at the prompt of Long Hair, is a great and hilarious little moment.
Dont say he didnt warn us .
pause for thought. 1972
Wise man
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍Anyway !!!
@@AL_THOMAS_777 uh, any relation to THE Thomas777?
I am still not sure how Gary is so strongly connected to the Beats when his poetry is so different in the way it's connected to nature. His work seems to capture a completely different attitude or vibe than the other Beats. To me, he is more like Robert Frost than Allen Ginsburg.
Amazing
Sad to say we have continued down the path of destruction of which he feared.....100's of nuclear power plants, and we are all iPhone and twitter junkies who dont want to lose our fix.
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=1619124930&sr=8-1
Hare Krishna.
Śrīla Prabhupada declared America as his fatherland. He, the saint from the Eastern Indian space on this planet knew all the continents. He & Alan Ginsberg were friends, and since they chanted the mantra for this Kali age together, the creeper of devotional love, universally available has grown and flourished. So much so that wars will diminish with the propagation of this blossoming garden. The unwanted human traits will be purified via the sacred name of Krishna or God.
Hare Krishna
Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna
Hare Hare
Hare Rāma
Hare Rāma
Rāma Rāma
Hare Hare
The original 20th century hipsters with hippie Buddhist beads, sandals, natural fiber clothing and pony tails. They took themselves fairly seriously.
Heavy
9:10
2 of these 3 people faded into obscurity. Can you guess which ones?
That's rich, coming from a channel with 15 subs. 😅
Wonder year this was. Maybe late 1960s?
he said it at about 9:00 nov 8 1972 the day after Nixon won 💩
@@heathdavid2540 So, about 15 years after The Dharma Bums 😊. When I read that book, I always wonder what parts are fictitious and which are real.
On this episode of “Why is this in my suggested...”
Tom Lehrer bahahha
pity that deer didn't conquer us, but pork
Where has this been?! :D
It has been on a U-matic studio master in the archives on the Brockport Writers Forum. More to come! We are slowly digitizing the whole series. Robert Hayden, Grace Paley, Isaac B Singer...
@@brockportwritersforum Great work. ✌
@@brockportwritersforum wonderful! I gave a reading there in 2019, and did an interview with Ralph Black. Would love to see that soon. Thanks for doing this.
@@wangping2857 Yes, I remember--I believe you were here in 2008 too. Really enjoyed having you, and I hope to have the interview online soon. COVID has slowed down the process of posting these recent interviews.
Chick Corea’s Spain in the background...
Poulin looks like Brian Jones’ beatnik turned Professor cousin
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