Gary Snyder Interview with Don Swaim

Audio Interview with Gary Snyder

The question, "Do we value other living beings?" intrigues Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author, Gary Snyder. His passion for nature and the legacy of Native Americans inspired him to write The High Sierra of California, Turtle Island, The Gary Snyder Reader, The Practice of the Wild: Essays and more.

Gary Snyder also talks about living in Japan, becoming a Zen Buddhist, and his life of writing in this 1991 interview with Don Swaim.

Listen to the Gary Snyder interview with Don Swaim, March 13, 1991, RealAudio
(38 min. 32 sec.)

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For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews.

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