He studied Buddhism in Japan, writing there "Toji" and "Higashi Hongwanji".
He studied Buddhism in Japan, writing there "Toji" and "Higashi Hongwanji". His time as a forest ranger in the mountains of Washington inspired "Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout" and "Milton by Firelight" and he read "A Berry Feast" at the famous Six Gallery reading. Because it ends "may be reproduced free forever", one of his most anthologized works is "Smokey the Bear Sutra". The inspiration for Japhy Ryder in The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, for 10 points, name this west coast Beat generation and ecological poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for his collection Turtle Island.
He studied Buddhism in Japan, writing there "Toji" and "Higashi Hongwanji".
Gary Snyder