Poetry and correspondence relating to the publication of Cassiopeia and Ephemeris, 1964-1974.

Welch, Lew, 1926-1971

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Biography Although Lewis Barrett Welch's life was marked by uncertainty and a lack of permanent goals, he gained an enduring position in the world of literature through his writings and personal influence. Welch was born 16 August 1926 in Phoenix, Arizona, to Lewis Barrett Welch Sr. and Dorothy Brownfield Welch. Mrs. Welch was the daughter of a wealthy Phoenix surgeon. Lew Welch claimed that he began suffering mental breakdowns wh...

Kearney, Lawrence, 1948-

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Körte, Mary Norbert, 1934-

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Jess, 1923-2004

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Jess, American visual artist, was born Burgess Collins on August 6, 1923 in Long Beach, California. Jess was educated as a chemist at the California Institute of Technology. Disillusioned with his scientific career, in 1949 he enrolled in the California School of the Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and began referring to himself as "Jess". He met Robert Duncan in 1951 and maintained a relationship with the poet that lasted until Duncan's death in 1988. George ...

Borregaard, Ebbe

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Publisher. From the description of Papers, 1961-1965. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 38483721 ...

Dawson, Fielding, 1930-2002

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Short story writer, novelist, essayist, painter and art critic, and student at Black Mountain College (early 1950s), of New York, N.Y. From the description of Fielding Dawson papers, ca. 1949-1983. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28417602 ...

Olson, Charles, 1910-1970

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Charles Olson, the leading voice of the Black Mountain poets, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was a notable student at Wesleyan University, where his groundbreaking work on Herman Melville evolved into the highly praised monograph, Call Me Ishmael. Inspired by Franklin Roosevelt, Olson worked his way up through the Democratic Party, but quit after Roosevelt's death, and began a brilliant career as a writer and educator. His manifesto, Projective Verse, influenced a generation of poets ...

Ellingham, Lewis

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Lew Ellingham is a San Francisco writer and critic who has served as book editor for the Sierra Club. He has published poems in numerous magazines and journals and is the author of POET, BE LIKE GOD (1984), an unpublished account of the Jack Spicer circle. Jack Spicer, 1925-1965, was an influential San Franciso poet celebrated for his experiments with language. The publisher of White Rabbit Press, Spicer became the central figure in a coterie of experimental poets living...

Schaff, David

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David Schaff was a California writer who edited the poetry journal Cassiopeia, which became Ephemeris. These were initially published by Lewis Ellingham. From the description of Poetry and correspondence relating to the publication of Cassiopeia and Ephemeris, 1964-1974. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 40311164 David Schaff was a California writer who edited the poetry journal Cassiopeia, which became Ephemeris. From the description of D...

Stanley, George, 1934-

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Michael Gizzi was born in Schenectady, New York in 1949 to Carolyn and Anthony Gizzi. He had two brothers, Peter and Thomas Gizzi. He spent part of his childhood living in Ohio and lived in East Greenwich, Rhode Island for three years (10th, 11th, and 12th grade) of high school. His parents moved up to Pittsfield, Massachusetts and he returned to Rhode Island as an undergraduate student at Brown University where he recieved a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976. He would return to Brown...

Kyger, Joanne

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Joanne Kyger is a West Coast poet who emerged as the Beat movement was beginning to wane in the 1960s. Kyger attended the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1952 to 1956, where she took classes with Hugh Kenner and Paul Wienphal both of whom were important to the development of her poetry. In 1957 she met John Wieners at The Place, a poetry bar, and through him met Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer; it was also during this time that she first met Gary Snyder. Later Kyger moved to the Eas...

Blaser, Robin.

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Robin Francis Blaser (May 18, 1925-May 7, 2009) was a noted author and poet in both the United States and Canada. From the description of Robin Blaser fonds. [n.d.]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 688600933 American poet. From the description of Robin Blaser papers, 1955-1971. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122551936 ...

MacAdams, Lewis, 1944-....

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American poet. From the description of Poem : only you : signed, annotated typescript, [196-] / Lewis MacAdams. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18423129 ...

Dull, Harold

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Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988

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California poet. From the description of Robert Edward Duncan papers, 1960-1977. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122545242 Robert Duncan (January 7, 1919 -February 3, 1988) was an American poet and a student of H.D. and the Western esoteric tradition who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco. Though associated with any number of literary traditions and schools, Duncan is often identified with the poets of the New American Poetry and B...

Abramson, Rachel

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Hoyem, Andrew, 1935-

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Moore, Daniel.

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Bromige, David

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Canadian poet, born in London in 1933. Educated at the Univ. of California, Berkeley. Teaches at Sonoma State University. Has lived and worked in California since 1964. Married to illustrator Sherril Jaffe. From the description of Correspondence, 1963-1972. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18494588 ...

Walsh, Tom, 1944-

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Sharp, Alex.

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Adams, Helen

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Brakhage, Stan

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Avant-garde filmmaker; full name James Stanley Brakhage; b. 1933. From the description of Stan Brakhage papers, 1953-1966. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28415992 ...

Persky, Stan, 1941-

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Marsten, John Norris

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