Beat generation -- Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Declaration of Independence for Dr. Timothy Leary, 1971-07-04
Item
Identifier: 2006.003.1.1.29
Scope and Contents
"Model statement in defense of the philosopher's personal freedom, as proposed to the American P.E.N. Club by San Francisco Bay Area poets, essayists, and novelist." Original statement signed by Allen Ginsberg; approved by Herb Gold, Michael McClure, Philp Whalen, Diane Di Prima, Ted Berrigan, Riobert Creeley, and Lawrencew Ferlinghetti.
Dates:
1971-07-04
Declaration of Independence for Dr. Timothy Leary, 1971-07-04
Item
Identifier: 2006.003.1.1.29
Scope and Contents
"Model Statement in Defense of the Philosopher's Personal Freedom Proposed by San Francisco Bay Area Prose Poets' Phalanx." Poets, essayists and novelists represented: Ken Kesey, Lawrewnce Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Howard Becker, Lenore Kandel, Anais Nin, Alan Watts, Kenneth Rexroth, Diane di Prima, Philip Lamantia, Don Allen, Bill Berkson, Tom Veitch, Ted Berrigan, Margo Patterson Doss, Johbn Doss M.D., Lewis MacAdams, Gavin Arthur Paul Krassner,...
Dates:
1971-07-04
Gregory Corso notebooks, 1960-1984
Collection
Identifier: 1978-002
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of eleven notebooks which contain handwritten rough drafts of poems and letters, drawings, calculations, autobiographical notes, and in some cases, addresses and appointments. Poem titles include "Love poems to Jocelyn", "O World, Who is God", "Recollections of the 1930s", "Sadism", "I saw an angel today", "Theory on new poetics", and "The historian of the ape". Most poems are untitled. Drawings include one of Allen Ginsberg and Basil Bunting reading...
Dates:
1960 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1977