Scope and Contents

Mentions that Curtay ought to contact Jack Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Includes an interview with Walter Hopps and essays by Robert Duncan dealing with Berman's personality and by David Meltzer on Berman's infatuation with Hebrew letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Meltzer, a poet who's maintained the edge he sharpened fighting conformity back in the heady days of the Beats, carries the battle forward in this engrossing volume of in-depth interviews with such fellow travelers as Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen, who have thrived over the decades and become tremendously influential poets andspiritual leaders. The true legacy of the Beat era was the entwining of art with social awareness and spiritual quests, and the resonance from this brief but indelible revolution is felt in both Meltzer's vintage and recent interviews. His 1969 encounters with the late great poets William Everson, Kenneth Rexroth, and Lew Welch capture the intensity and probity of that inspired time and are invaluable works of oral history, as are the striking juxtapositions between Meltzer's past and present discussions with the still radical and thrilling Lawrence Ferlinghetti Jack Hirschman, and Michael McClure. Eloquent and knowledgeable, these poets and others, including...

Scope and Contents

Includes several critical essays and biographic remembrances. An untitled Verifax collage of a Mexican dictator that is depicted on page 56 is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Also designated Tree: 4. In Hirschman's chapter, he presents a partial calligraphic rendition of his translation of Abulafia's poems -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Catalogue of the exhibition at the gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, September - November 1992; includes 23 separate objects (2 booklets, 2 folios, 5 leaves, 1 folded sheet, 10 color postcards, 1 accordion-folded sheet and 1 poster). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Also designated Auerhahn Pamphlet No.2. Meltzer provides a favorable critique of Patchen's poetry and literary work in this pamphlet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.