Michael McClure letter : New York, N.Y., to David Meltzer, San Francisco, Calif., [1961 Aug 31].

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Michael McClure letter : New York, N.Y., to David Meltzer, San Francisco, Calif., [1961 Aug 31].

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Letter describing daily events of settling in New York and other activities. Gives details of an apartment that has just been rented and of attending a talk by poet "Roi Jones" (Le Roi Jones is now known as Imamu Amiri Baraka) on Cuba and another reading by poet Bill Berkson. He inquires into details of an acceptance of a manuscript by UCLA and requests Meltzer's response by postcard if needed. The postmarked envelope has a complete c/o return address of Diane Di Prima in New York City. The envelope has two 4 cent postage stamps with a picture of bi-plane on them and the naval air wings commemorating Naval Aviation from 1911 to 1961 affixed to it and canceled at the Church Street Station. (The stamps were issued on August 20, 1961, and commemorated the Golden Jubilee of the Navy's participation and development in aviation. The stamp image features naval air wings and the first naval airplane, the 1911 Curtiss A-1.)

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Di Prima, Diane, 1934-2020

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Meltzer, David J.

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McClure, Michael.

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Michael McClure was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist, and part of the Beat Generation of poetry. He was one of five authors who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading, and became close with Jack Kerouac, being immortalized as Pat McLean in Big Sur. He is known as the Prince of the Frisco Scene. From the guide to the Michael McClure letter to Diane di Prima, September 1968, (Ohio University) San Francisco-based ...

Berkson, Bill

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Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014

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Amiri Baraka was born LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, in 1934. He was educated at Rutgers and Howard Universities, graduating from the latter at the age of 19. In 1958 he founded the influential poetry magazine Yugen, which ran until 1962. His writings, including fiction, essays, and poetry, appeared in such publications as The nation, Evergreen review, Downbeat, and The floating bear. From the description of Imamu Amiri Baraka papers, 1958-1982. (University of California, Berkele...