Thomas Francis Parkinson Papers, 1950-1985.
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Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
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Corso, Gregory
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Snyder, Gary
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Biography Biographical Narrative Masa Uehara, daughter of Tokusei and Mitsu, was raised in Japan. She and Gary Snyder were introduced in 1966 at a dinner party hosted by Hisao Kanaseki, one of her university professors and a friend of Snyder's. At the time of their introduction Uehara had recently graduated from Kobe University and was planning to pursue graduate studies at Ochanomizu Women's Universit...
Parkinson, Thomas Francis, 1920-
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Thomas Parkinson (1920-1992), professor of English at Berkeley, author on Yeats, was a friend of Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, Kenneth Rexroth, etc. From the description of Letter to Allen Ginsberg. [19 --?] WorldCat record id: 62622447 Thomas Francis Parkinson, professor of English at the University of California, Berkley; authority on the life and works of W. B. Yeats and the literary movement known as The Beat. In 1961 he edited the influential "Cas...
Whalen, Philip
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Biography Philip Whalen (1923-2002) graduated from Reed College in 1951 on the GI Bill after serving in the Army Air Corps in World War II. It was at Reed that Whalen met and became friends with poets Gary Snyder and Lew Welch. Several years later, Whalen was one of the poets who read with Snyder and others at the historic Six Gallery reading in San Francisco on October 13, 1955. Allen Ginsberg first performed his poem, Howl, at the Six Galle...
