Jaffy Ryder

"That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order."
-- Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder was named the winner of the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize on Tuesday May 1st. Announcing the award, Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine and chairman of the selection committee, said, “His poetry is a testament to the sacredness of the natural world and our relation to it, and a prophecy of what we stand to lose if we forget that relation.” The San Francisco-born Mr. Snyder, 78, whose poetry collections include “The Back Country” and “Danger on Peaks,” began writing in the 1950s as a member of the Beat movement and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for “Turtle Island.” He is professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Davis. The prize honors a living American poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition.

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* Jack Kerouac renamed Gary Snyder - Jaffy Ryder, in Kerouac's book; Dharma Bums