Gary Snyder's Reading List

The poet, essayist and environmentalist cites Ovid's "Metamorphoses" as an inspiration: "Ovid in a sense tried to write the entire Roman story. I take it as a challenge to look for the storyteller of the planet."

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By the Book: Gary Snyder (2019)

NYT By the Book column (2019-04-25).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Against the Grain

James C. Scott · Buy on Amazon

"James C. Scott's "Against the Grain," but that's just one of several recent books by Scott drawing on the radical new understanding regarding agriculture and a prehistory in which wild plant use and management was far more subtle (and productive) than realized before."

Metamorphoses

Ovid · Buy on Amazon

"It would be Ovid's "Metamorphoses." I read it all in my early 20s just by luck, and realized it was as close as I'd ever get to such a range of sources."

1491

Charles C. Mann · Buy on Amazon

"Charles C. Mann's 2005 book "1491" argues that the New World had a larger population than all of Europe as of that year."

The Analects of Confucius

Confucius · Buy on Amazon

"Master Kong left behind his scattered comments. "The Analects of Confucius," translated by Roger T. Ames and Henry Rosemont Jr., presents the Old Master's thoughts plus his values of respect, precision and good manners."

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