Ginsberg Supermarket In California


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Ginsberg Supermarket In California

Ginsberg Supermarket In California

While it is said that Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Neal Cassady are the original Beat writers, there are a number of other key figures that would cause the movement to explode across the nation.

In 1948, three students at Reed College met, became friends and eventually became involved with the Beat Generation, the San Francisco Renaissance and the Black Mountain Poets.

American Poet, Zen Buddhist, Philosopher and Environmental Activist

Gary Sherman Snyder was born May 8, 1930 in San Francisco, California to Harold and Lois Hennessy Snyder.

After attending Reed College with friends Philip Whalen and Lew Welch, Snyder went to Berkeley to study Asian Languages. He had always had a particular interest in Chinese and Japanese culture and poetry and he shared this interest with Kenneth Rexroth, one of the first poets in the United States to explore traditional Japanese poetic forms such as haiku. It was through Rexroth that Snyder first met and then fell in love with the Beat crowd.

On Oct. 7, 1955, Snyder read his poem, A Berry Feast at the Six Gallery poetry reading in San Francisco, where Rexroth acted as master of ceremonies. Allen Ginsberg, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure and Philip Whalen also read at the famous event.

Through Ginsberg, Snyder met Jack Kerouac and became the inspiration for the main character in Kerouac’s novel, The Dharma Bums.