Oral history interview : Philip Whalen, Reed College, class of 1951 / interviewed by John Sheehy, 1982, on September 22, 1998.

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Oral history interview : Philip Whalen, Reed College, class of 1951 / interviewed by John Sheehy, 1982, on September 22, 1998.

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Discussion of Whalen's background in Oregon and the Army having entered Reed on the G.I. Bill of Rights in 1946; his impressions of Reed and descriptions of faculty members, including Arragon, Monte Griffith, F.L. Griffin, Woodbridge, Richard Jones, David French, Stanley Moore, Ralph Beringer, and Lloyd Reynolds. Whalen describers his poet friends Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, and Bill Dickey; his interest in Buddhism and Vedanta; his poticial activism during the Henry Wallace campaign; his creative thesis with Lloyd Reynolds, and his subsequent careers in Japan and California as poet and abbot at a Zen center in San Francisco.

Transcript: [48] leaves.

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Reed College Oral History Project.

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Whalen, Philip.

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Philip Whalen was a Beat poet and a Buddhist Monk. From the description of Philip Whalen papers, [194-]-2001. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 57586331 Poet; associated with Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, San Francisco beat writers, and Charles Olson; ordained a Buddhist monk in the 1970s; b. 1923. From the description of Philip Whalen Collection, 1958-1977. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28418352 Philip Glenn Whalen w...

Reed College (Portland, Or.)

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Sheehy, John P.

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