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The portrait gallery called existence / Neeli Cherkovski.
Van Pelt Library PS3553.H3534 P64 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cherkovski, Neeli, 1945-2024, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cherkovski, Neeli, 1945-2024--Friends and associates--Poetry.
- Cherkovski, Neeli.
- Poets--Poetry.
- Poets.
- Genre:
- Biographical poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 109 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2025]
- Summary:
- "To be published on what would have been his 80th birthday, The Portrait Gallery Called Existence finds the poet and memoirist combining these twin vocations in intimate depictions of his fellow artists and reflections on his family. The book follows Cherkovski from his early encounters in L.A. with poets like Wanda Coleman and Jack Micheline to his youthful heyday among the Beat Generation in North Beach, San Francisco, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. The passage of time is inevitably marked with the loss of beloved friends, recorded in elegies for recently deceased poets like Diane di Prima, Michael McClure, and Jack Hirschman, as well as a series of poems celebrating his close friendship with Lawrence Ferlinghetti"-- Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version Cherkovski, Neeli, 1945-2024 Portrait gallery called existence
- ISBN:
- 9780872869370
- 0872869377
- OCLC:
- 1452502986
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