poet, essayist, and bioregionalist. snyder's combination of geography, poetry, and philosophy of tending is the closest precedent for the way i work. he treats place not as backdrop but as the central fact of practice.

his idea of reinhabitation, learning to live in a place with full attention to its ecology, history, and particularities, maps directly onto situated knowledge. i make tools for where i actually am: oaxaca, cdmx, and xalapa.

the zen work ethic that runs through his writing, attentive, unhurried, and present, is what i mean when i say soft stack ecology treats systems as living things to tend.

poetry foundation — gary snyder