Ted Joans collection, 1928-2003.

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Ted Joans collection, 1928-2003.

The Ted Joans collection consists mainly of correspondence and notes (1969-2003). The bulk of the material is between Hy Shore, Joans attorney, agent and friend, with a folder of material on Jim Haynes, a client and friend of Hy Shore and a key social figure in the expatriate community in Paris. Also included is the typescript for "The Hipsters" (1961), poems, sketches and cartoon style drawings (mostly on envelopes).

.8 lin. ft. (2 archival boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6712434

New York Public Library System, NYPL

Related Entities

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Shore, Hy.

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Haynes, Jim

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Joans, Ted

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sn0qf1 (person)

Ted Joans, African-American poet, jazz musician, and surrealist painter, was born July 4, 1928, in Cairo, Illinois. He became a well-known poet from the Beat movement and established the jazz poetry scene. He died on May 7, 2003 in Vancouver, B.C. From the description of Ted Joans papers, 1948-2002. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 697543004 African American poet; b. 1928. From the description of Ted Joans collection, 1972-1976. (Boston U...