Gary Snyder, who spent his formative years in the Seattle area, has
won the 2008 Ruth Lilly Prize for his body of work.
The Lilly Prize, with a stipend of $100,000, is one of the most
lucrative prizes in American letters. Snyder is considered a Northwest
poet because of his nature-centered verse, even though he has long
lived in Northern California.
The 77-year-old poet, a follower of Zen Buddhism, lived on a farm in
what was then the rural area of Lake City until the age of 13.
Spending the summer of 1952 as a fire lookout in the North Cascades
also had a huge impact on Snyder's writing. It also inspired writer
Jack Kerouac to do his own stint as a lookout there.
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"With Humans it's what's here (he points to his heart) that makes the
difference. If you don't have it in the heart, nothing you make will
make a difference." ~~Bernard Leach~~ (As told to Dean Schwarz)
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