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I know the Griffin claims to be the richest poetry prize in the world, but Gary Snyder just took home the Ruth Lilly Prize (100 large) for a half century of nature poetry. I guess this is more of a lifetime achievement thing than a book contest, but it’s still a whole lot of scratch.
Snyder, 78, began writing in the 1950s as a member of the beat movement along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. He spent most of the ’60s in a Zen monastery in Japan. He was the inspiration for Japhy Ryder in Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums.
Now a professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Snyder lives in northern California.
The jury called him “a deeply learned and meditative artist, an impassioned ecologist, and a poet of great scope.
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