Géopoétique, anthropoétique et cosmopolitique : trois axes de la poétique anti-impérialiste de Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder is mostly known as a poet of the beat generation. Nonetheless, he also shaped his poems and writings into a particular poetical anti-imperialism. Far from depicting the legends associated with this rebellious time, Gary Snyder built a “Real Work” of poetry by foreseeing the ecological crisis and the ecocide we are currently facing. Th e paper discusses how his anti-imperialism is composed of three poetical parts, which reshape our imagination: geopoetics, anthropoetics and cosmopolitics. Th e article demonstrates that Snyder’s poetry is about the language itself and about the three outsides of imperialism; geopoetics (otherness), anthropoetics (human beings) and cosmopolitics (how the first two combine into a new political outlook).