O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder

O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder

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2025-03-09

The first feature-length film documenting the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet/activist Gary Snyder. A participant in the famed 1955 Six Gallery poetry reading in San Francisco that launched the Beat era (and the careers of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac), Snyder later lived and studied in Japan, becoming a Zen teacher. He is the model for the character of Japhy Ryder in Jack Kerouac’s bestselling novel, The Dharma Bums.

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The first feature-length film documenting the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet/activist Gary Snyder. A participant in the famed 1955 Six Gallery poetry reading in San Francisco that launched the Beat era (and the careers of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac), Snyder later lived and studied in Japan, becoming a Zen teacher. He is the model for the character of Japhy Ryder in Jack Kerouac’s bestselling novel, The Dharma Bums.

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2025-03-09

Runtime

102

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Documentary

Language

English

Production

Optic Nerve

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    Colin Still

    Colin Still
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    Gary Snyder

    Gary Snyder
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    Peter Coyote

    Peter Coyote
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    Jane Hirshfield

    Jane Hirshfield
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    Jack Shoemaker

    Jack Shoemaker