I love Gary and his work, and have since before 1970. I have not seen him in person for a long time. I have wondered about him for years, hoping for his good health and safety and longevity. He has been one of my teachers, not so much about writing as about life. It is a beautiful, rare gift to have this recorded conversation of Gary that is so recent. Thank you, very, very much! And sending my love to Gary.

@wangping2857

Жыл бұрын

thans Carl. I'll tell Gary you said hi! Please feel free to subscribe. I have more Gary films soon.

@robreich4905

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Ping Wang! These videos of yourself and Gary are treasures! Please share more! 🙂🌟👍

@wangping2857

Жыл бұрын

@@robreich4905 I will! I have a few more videos on the way. after I'm done with rowing season. training is taking up my time. thanks for your support.

@user-do1qd1qi8l

Жыл бұрын

Writing is life, and so is art.

She is so nice, humble, respectful. And he is so full of himself, arrogance brimming below the surface. A cranky old, unrepentant lefty! Wonderful channel. 👍☕️

Ping - you’re a great interviewer :) Gary is a treasure. Thank you!!

Thank you for sharing these stories with us, Ping. They are indeed a treasure.

@wangping2857

Жыл бұрын

thank you! I just finished another interview with Gary on Riprap. It's a fun one.

These interviews are precious. You are asking all the questions that we won't ever know about most writers in such depth. Very interesting to hear about your path as well, Ping.

@wangping2857

2 жыл бұрын

thanks! that was my intention: all roads to poetry, for everyone, because poetry is our birthright. thanks for feeling it.

Thank you, Ping! Your recent conversations with Gary are a rare delight...venturing into the backcountry of poetry and life!

@wangping2857

2 жыл бұрын

thanks Josh! This was my intension. Not easy to enter so deep, hence this back and forth zigzag way...

Thank you so much for these wonderful conversations with Gary. Nice to hear a little about your life too. With appreciation, Michael

The reference to Rexroth, is amusing. Ginsberg would advance that Kerouac was an accomplished poet, referencing: Mexico City Blues. Snyder, oft seems rather cranky and ever so slightly, argumentive - which has been noticeable as he grew into being an elder. Ms. Ping, you are very gracious.

chickens, books, poems. this interview was a lovely zig zag. it made my night. thank you. mysterious forces, yes

I could listen to Gary and Ping forever.

@wangping2857

8 ай бұрын

thank you!

Deep gratitude to you, Wang, for documenting. I appreciate the loving curiosity with which you interviewed Gary, allowing him to remember aloud all that he knows.

Thank you for sharing these videos! Nice hear Gary speak about his life and poetry and also to hear some of your story. I had the pleasure of hearing Gary read before a small crowd outside of Los Angeles close to 40 years ago. One thing I remember was his completely genuine laugh! He signed my copy of Axe Handles which I later lent to someone during a night of drinking. I never got the book back but somehow that seems fitting.

@wangping2857

Жыл бұрын

I believe the book is in a good hand! and it is forever in your heart. I'll tell him your story, and he'll laugh.

@markmerella3894

Жыл бұрын

@@wangping2857 Thank you so much. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos.

So happy to come across this. Beautiful life stories and discussion, especially about books❤ Fully appreciate growing up near a public library. Especially after hearing how inaccessible books were for so many...

@wangping2857

9 ай бұрын

thank you Michel!

I've always wondered how Gary could have been connected to the other Beat poets because Gary is so different from them. Gary is humble and soft-spoken, with a genuine love and appreciation for nature. His poetry brings the best out of the reader, lifts them up to a higher plane, rather than forcing them into something uncomfortable (nothing wrong with that...just pointing out that Gary is different.) He is more like Robert Frost than Alan Ginsburg.

Snyder was trying to recall: Jaime de Angulo, who wrote: Indians In Overalls and Indian Tales. Books I once read, primarily because Snyder had made references to the texts.

Thank you doing these sessions. Much appreciated and interesting.

This was a wonderful interview. Thankyou, Ping and Gary.

@wangping2857

Жыл бұрын

thank you Jonnie! there'll be more to come. please stay in tune.

My deepest gratitude to you, Wang Ping, and to Gary. I try to live by the last verses of For the Children: Stay together learn the flowers go light You are a dear elder to my spiritual tribe, Gary. I celebrate your life, your work, your teachings. As long as I live, I shall praise the mountains.

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ BODHIGARY SNYDER❤️ ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

this is a beautiful discussion. Thank you.

This was so enjoyable. Thank you Ping!

This is a wonderful interview

I once read a novel about a man who read novels by Balzac during the Cultural Revolution. I've never really understood why Balzac's novels were banned in China then. He was after all, one of Karl Marx's favourite writers.

Thank you for this Ping, but I wanted to hear more about the work Japhy Ryder did before his professor years. Very good hearing about your straight path to poetry..

@wangping2857

2 жыл бұрын

thank! I tried a few times, but he doesn't want to go into this, because he has his own opinion about Jack's presentation of him.

@TheSalMaris

2 жыл бұрын

@@wangping2857 These sessions are great just the way they are. Thank you again.

Japhy Ryder.

*almost real time* Gary TV in such goodness

@uncleweed

2 жыл бұрын

the summer reading cert on the wall at UC Davis is classic piece of personal archeology

@uncleweed

2 жыл бұрын

love how you are connecting the dots from 1988 to present moment - directly zig zagged :)

@uncleweed

2 жыл бұрын

note: indeed, there is a big gulf between teaching literature and creative writing

@uncleweed

2 жыл бұрын

gosh he's sharp when he hits his stride, thanks again poet Ping

@wangping2857

2 жыл бұрын

@@uncleweed Yes, he's so sharp, mixed and nurtured by his wisdom.

🙂🙂🙂🙂

5:43 This is an important question which didn't really get answered. I think the question was, how do you feel about your upbringing where you provided [at least some of] your own food and had to do the work? In other words, you had some self-sufficiency and it required old-fashioned manual labor, something which is all but extinct in the modern world. Edit: I want to point out there's nothing wrong with his answer, rather I think it was a great question 👍

@wangping2857

Жыл бұрын

thanks for picking it up. that was my real intention for Gary and for the world nowadays. Such abyss between the mind and body, spiritual and physical

@dfinma

Жыл бұрын

@@wangping2857 By the way the story about making a nest for Silky is very touching 😊

The lady is miked, Gary just barely. You ca hardly hear him.

@wangping2857

Жыл бұрын

We used an I-phone, and set it up on Gary's desk. It's low tech.