{"id":562,"date":"2010-10-08T09:43:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T16:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/2010\/10\/gary-snyder-51-pulitzer-prize-winning.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:15:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:15:34","slug":"gary-snyder-51-pulitzer-prize-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/2010\/10\/gary-snyder-51-pulitzer-prize-winning\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Snyder &#8217;51 in film and print"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/gary_snyder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gary_snyder.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2010\/10\/gary_snyder-thumb-93x94-1216.jpg\" width=\"93\" height=\"94\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a>Gary Snyder &#8217;51, Pulitzer-Prize winning poet (<b>and keynote speaker for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/2010\/09\/coming-summer-2011\/\">Centennial Reunions &#8217;11<\/a>!<\/b>), is profiled in a new film, &#8220;The Practice of the Wild.&#8221; The documentary, which premiered at the <a href=\"http:\/\/fest10.sffs.org\/films\/film_details.php?id=73\">San Francisco International Film Festival<\/a>, &#8220;revolves around a life-long conversation between Snyder and his fellow poet and novelist Jim Harrison.&#8221; (San Simeon Films) <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Together, the two old friends roam the verdant hills of the central California coast, musing eloquently and with hard-won wisdom and earthy humor on Bay Area bohemia, Zen Buddhism and the morally charged interdependence of all living things.&#8221; (Steven Jenkins, San Francisco Film Society) Watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/sansimeonfilms\">trailer for the film<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/snyder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"snyder.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2010\/10\/snyder-thumb-100x115-1218.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"115\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you crave more bang for your Beat, read the feature story &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reed.edu\/reed_magazine\/winter2008\/features\/the_beats\/index.html\">When the Beats Came Back<\/a>&#8221; in Reed magazine (winter 2008) about a 1956 road trip by Snyder and Allen Ginsberg that brought &#8220;Howl&#8221; to Reed (<a href=\"http:\/\/web.reed.edu\/news_center\/multimedia\/2008-09\/snyder08_fullrecording.html\">listen<\/a> to Gary reading assorted poetry on that visit). Also, check out a photography exhibit, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nga.gov\/exhibitions\/ginsberginfo.shtm\">Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg<\/a>,&#8221; at the National Gallery (the show has closed, but the website offers highlights). Edmund White&#8217;s fascinating review of the exhibit, with rich contextual anecdotes, ran in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2010\/jul\/22\/beats-pictures-legend\/\">New York Review of Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Snyder &apos;51, Pulitzer-Prize winning poet (and keynote speaker for Centennial Reunions &apos;11!), is profiled in a new film, &quot;The Practice of the Wild.&quot; The documentary, which premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival, &quot;revolves around a life-long conversation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reunions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3162,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/3162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}