Paul Emery presents O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder

Sunday, February 8th @ 2:00 PM

This is the first feature-length film documenting the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet/activist Gary Snyder. The film was skillfully assembled and remastered from the filmmaker’s original 1990s 16mm footage shot for British television, and offers a vivid self portrait of the famously elusive poet and essayist through his poems and commentary.

Filmed on location at his Kitkitdizzie/Ring of Bone Zendo home in the Sierra and other locations connected with him, it also features key archival footage from the 1950s and 1960s, as well as contemporaneous readings and commentary by Peter Coyote, Jane Hirshfield, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Shoemaker, and Michael McClure, and a precious interview with Snyder’s late wife Carole Koda.

On the occasion of poet and environmental writer Gary Snyder’s ninety-fifth birthday, Library of America was honored to host a limited-time screening of O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder, filmmaker Colin Still’s intimate and engrossing documentary about this singular voice and mind in our nation’s literature.

Tickets Available HERE