Once in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago, a Berkeley legend was born: beat poet Gary Snyder. This man is so much more than Jack Kerouac’s zen sidekick in Dharma Bums. He is a sailor. He is a logger. He is a former Berkeley grad student in the Oriental languages department. He’s got a mind like compost. And he’s a literary badass.

Snyder will read selections from Riprap at the Morrison Library this Friday, Nov. 13 from 4-6:30 p.m to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his groundbreaking work.

Be there, or be hay for the horses.

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Tags:Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Morrison Library, oriental languages
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