Kisiabaton

      Beat-up datsun idling in the road
      shreds of fog
      almost-vertical hillsides drop away
      huge stumps fading into mist
      soft warm rain

 Gary Snyder at Modern American Poetry

Gary Snyder at Academy of American Poets

Gary Snyder at Literary Kicks

Gary Snyder at Poetry Foundation

Paris Review interview with Gary Snyder 

SNYDER: Actually the poems in Riprap are not the poems of my youth. Those are the poems that I've kept because those were the ones I felt were the beginning of my life as a poet. I started writing poems when I was fifteen. I wrote ten years of poetry before Riprap. Phase one: romantic teenage poetry about girls and mountains.

INTERVIEWER: You're still writing that!

SNYDER I realized I shouldn't have said that as soon as the words were out of my mouth. I would like to think that they are not romantic poems but classical poems about girls and mountains.