then moved east and changed names. Nearly 30 years later, in 1976, one year after [Gary] Snyder received the Pulitzer Prize, she donated the fading pages to California's UC Davis. There, in a Special Collections folder, they sat, until I went looking for them as part of my research on Mount Hood. Upon contacting Snyder about the event and Cohn's preserved pages, he replied: "Nobody before noticed the Mt. Hood portion . . . I am charmed." But make no mistake, Snyder is sensitive about his early work. "I have not published juvenilia poems for a good reason," he said in an email.
from The Oregonian: Gary Snyder: Atop Mount Hood in 1947, a copyboy sets course as a poet
then The Oregonian: Gary Snyder: In his own words, from Aug. 17, 1947
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