Carl Weissner Archive 1965-1973

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

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Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey to Louis and Naomi (Levy) Ginsberg. American poet, author, lecturer, and teacher who was one of the core members of the Beat Generation of American author's in the 1950's and early 1960's along with Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. He died of complications of liver cancer on April 6, 1997. From the description of Allen Ginsberg papers, 1937-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019390 ...

Di Prima, Diane, 1934-2020

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Diane Di Prima was born on 6 August 1934 in Brooklyn, N.Y. She attended Swarthmore College, but dropped out in 1953 to move to Manhattan and become a writer. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, she joined the emerging Beat movement. She was the editor of the newsletter The Floating Bear with LeRoi Jones, 1961-1969. In 1966, she moved to Millbrook, N.Y., to live in Timothy Leary's community. She moved to San Francisco, Calif., in 1968. In California, she taught at such institutions as the New Coll...

Clays, Gino

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Vostell, Wolf, 1932-1998

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Georgakas, Dan

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Author; b. 1938. From the description of Papers, 1958-1980. (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28413987 Dan Georgakas is an anarchist,labor historian, scholar of Greek-American redicalism, and of motion pictures. Coauthor of Detroit: I Do Mind Dying and coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left and he is a long time member of the Cineaste editorial board, and has taught part time at New York University and Queens College. From the guide to the ...

Beiles, Sinclair Simon Maurice

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Dowden, George

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From the guide to the George Dowden Papers on the Allen Ginsberg Bibliography, 1966-1971, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) ...

Beach, Mary, 1919-

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Choudhuri, Pradip

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Bergé, Carol, 1928-2006

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American author. From the description of Papers. 1970-1983. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 12926111 American author and poet. From the description of Papers, 1970-1983. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 28419455 Carol Bergé was born in New York in 1955. She is the author of numerous pieces of prose. Her volumes of poetry include Secrets, gossip and slander (1984), From a soft angle: poems about women (1...

Belart, Gerard

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Gysin, Brion.

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Brion Gysin was born on January 19, 1916, in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England. Gysin first established himself as a painter, attending the Sorbonne from 1934-1935 and associating with figures such as Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and Salvador Dali. In 1935 he participated in the Surrealist Drawing Exhibitions, although his work was withdrawn by Surrealist founder Andre Breton. Gysin also attended the University of Bordeaux from 1949-1952 and Archivos de India at the University of Seville from 1952-195...

Norse, Harold.

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American poet, critic, essayist, and editor. From the description of Poetry, prose writings, and translations, ca. 1953-1959. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122530567 Harold Norse -- poet, critic and essayist -- was born in New York in 1916 and educated at Brooklyn College and New York University. Norse's book of poems, The undersea mountain, was published in 1953. Since then he has published 6 volumes of p...

Herman, Jan, 1942-....

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Jan Herman (Jan. 2, 1942), editor, publisher, author and journalist, founded NOVA Broadcast Press as well as the journal San Francisco Earthquake (1967-1971.) He published Beat, post-Beat and Fluxus writers and artists such as William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Dick Higgins, Wolf Vostell, Norman Mustill, Claude Pelieu, Mary Beach, Liam O'Gallagher and Nanos Valaoritis. He worked with Higgins at Something Else Press, becoming the editor (1972-1974). He co-wrote Cut Up or Shut Up, wit...

Nuttall, Jeff

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Jeff Nuttall (1933-2004), painter, poet, and performance artist was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, and grew up in Herefordshire, England. Nuttall was considered one of the pioneers of the "happening," the counterculture movement in 1960s England, and associated with many of the American beat generation writers, especially William Burroughs. From the description of Jeff Nuttall collection, 1962-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 456423526 ...

Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998

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American artist, poet, writer, publisher, composer, and educator. From the description of Dick Higgins papers, ca. 1960-1994 (bulk 1972-1993). (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 146003268 Artist, poet, publisher, and composer; New York and Barrytown, NY. Member of the artists' group, Fluxus. Died Oct. 25, 1998. From the description of Dick Higgins papers, 1958-1997. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79005545 D. October 25, 1998. Fro...

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997

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William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was an American experimental novelist, "beat" poet, and cultural icon. From the guide to the William S. Burroughs Letter, undated, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), American novelist, essayist, writer of experimental fiction. A primary member of the Beat generation, he was an avant-garde author who affected postwar popular culture as well as literature. From the ...

Blazek, Douglas, 1941-

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American poet. From the description of An owl inside my head & dead leaves : typescript, [196-] / Douglas Blazek. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18418314 ...

Paik, Nam June

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Williams, Heathcote

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Knowles, Alison, 1933-....

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Alison Knowles (1933- ) is an artist and a founding member of Fluxus in New York, N.Y. Judith Olch Richards (1947- ) is a former director of iCI in New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Alison Knowles, 2010 June 1-2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 744436674 ...

Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995

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Ray Johnson (1927-1995) was a painter from Locust Valley, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Ray Johnson, 1968 Apr. 17 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82223586 Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Ray Johnson is frequently referred to as the "father of mail art." He attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina from 1945 to 1948, then moved to New York. Although he worked as an abstract painter for several years, by 1953 Johnson h...

Manganotti, Donatella

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Donatella Manganotti was William Burroughs' Italian translator. She translated several of Burroughs' works, including The Naked Lunch (Il posto nudo, 1964), The Soft Machine (La morbida macchina, 1965), and The Yage Letters (Le Lettere dello Yage: In amazzonia all ricerca di una droga alluncinatoria, 1967). Manganoti died in 1968. From the description of Donatella Manganotti papers, 1961-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 739125779 ...

Weissner, Carl.

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Carl Weissner (1940- ), German writer and translator of experimental fiction, published the avantgarde newspaper, Klactoveedsedsteen (1965-1969), and established a Beat Generation scene in Germany after living in New York and San Francisco between 1968 and 1970. Weissner translated the works of various avantgarde authors, including William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Nelson Algren, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowry, Harold Norse, Jack Micheline, Andy Warhol, Denton Welch and Frank Zappa. Weissner’s ...

Pélieu, Claude, 1934-2002

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Claude Pélieu (December 20, 1934 – December 24, 2002) was a French poet, translator and artist. He lived in France until 1963, when he moved to the United States, where he spent most of the rest on his life. Friend and associate of William S. Burroughs. From the description of Claude Pelieu collection, 1953-1974. (Scottsdale Public Library). WorldCat record id: 36689156 ...

Bukowski, Charles

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Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was born in Andernach, Germany and came to the U.S. when he was three. He grew up in Los Angeles and began writing as a child. He published his first story at age 24 and first poem at age 35. He spent much of his life drifting. Although Bukowski did not associate with "beat writers," his style attracts readers and followers of the beat generation. A prolific writer, much of his work is based on his own experience using the language and subjects of the street. He wrot...