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A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

Gary Snyder

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Gary Snyder
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 8
Environmentalist
Poet
Trade Unionist
Translator
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Gary Snyder
Communion
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Reading
Known
Kind
Articulates
Semi
Tribe
Tribes

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