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Robert Duncan in San Francisco / Michael Rumaker.
LIBRA PS3507.U629 Z88 1996 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rumaker, Michael, 1932-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988--Homes and haunts--California--San Francisco.
- Duncan, Robert.
- Rumaker, Michael, 1932-2019.
- Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988.
- Gay men.
- Friends and associates.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- Rumaker, Michael, 1932-2019--Friends and associates.
- Rumaker, Michael.
- Gay men--California--San Francisco--Biography.
- Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- California--San Francisco.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Biography.
- Friendship.
- Homes.
- Intellectual life.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 81 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Grey Fox Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- Michael Rumaker centers his memoir in 1957 San Francisco, where many fellow Black Mountain students are migrating since the close of the College. Allen Ginsberg, after the notorious readings of his poem HOWL in 1956, has departed for Tangier, but the young Beats are invading North Beach and a dope scene is blooming. The Place is where the poets and painters hang out and Jack Spicer directs the Blabbermouth nights. This is the summer of the famous HOWL trial where Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Shigeyoshi Murao, of City Lights, are prosecuted for selling Allen Ginsberg's book. Meanwhile the police are stepping up their hassling of hippies on upper Grant Avenue and arresting gays on Polk Street. Rumaker positions his in-depth, eloquent portrait of Robert Duncan against this turbulent city background, and contrasts Robert's open gay life as a poet with his own painful covert sexuality.
- Notes:
- "An earlier version ... was published by Robert Bertholf in Credences 5/6 (March 1978)"--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 0912516135
- 9780912516134
- OCLC:
- 35008265
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