Gary Snyder Gary Snyder was born on May 8, 1930, in San Francisco. He has published numerous books of poetry and prose, and also had achieved numerous awards including an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Levinson Prize from poetry, the Robert Kirsch lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Shelley Memorial Award etc., and most recently, he was announced as the recipient of the 2012 Wallace Stevens Awards for lifetime achievement by the Academy of American Poets. He was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American poets in 2003. Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout by Gary Snyder is a quiet meditative type of poem in which the persona meditates upon a landscape that he describes. The poem begins like a descriptive poem, but is a serious meditation upon an American rural landscape, and upon the people who have literally and metaphorically left it behind when they went after the lure of the city civilization. This poem is a
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