Research Catalog

Title

Beat and beatific.

Author

Haynes, Grover.

Publication

[Studio City, Calif.] : Three Penny Press, 1959.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brown, Walter C.
• Kandel, Lenore.

Description

[2] p., [20] leaves, [2] p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Subjects

• Beats (Persons)
• American poetry > 20th century
• Beats (Persons) > Poetry
• Beats (Persons) > California > Los Angeles
• Kandel, Lenore
• Brown, Walter C

Note

• Cover title.
• Staple-bound in mimeographed black paper wrappers, with title in white on front wrapper, with band of yellow paper with press name and "III" mimeographed in black, which is stapled to the pamphlet and wrapped around front and back wrapper.
• Hand-lettering by Rosie Haynes. - From the copyright page.
• "Superbly decorated bi John Fox II." - From the page facing the copyright page.
• Text printed on recto of each leaf, except for final leaf, which contains text on recto and verso, comprising statement of purpose, signed in initials by the editor, Grover Haynes.
• "The THREE PENNY PRESS, inspired by the abundance of poetry on the lips of local barefoot bards, was conceived from the inky womb of a battered mimeograph machine to become the Boswell of our own 'don't give a damn' poets. [...] Our booklets of poetry are experiments."
• Lenore Kandel (1933-2009) gained notoriety when, in 1966, she published "The Love Book," a pamphlet of four of her poems, one of which, "To Fuck With Love," was deemed by the police to be in voilation of California's obscenity law, resulting in their seizure of all copies of the pamphlet from City Lights Books and The Psychedlic Shop. Kandel grew up in New York, where she studied Zen, the influence of which can be seen in her poetry, and moved to San Francisco in 1960. There she met the Beat poet Lew Welch and the poet Gary Snyder, as well as the Beat novelist Jack Kerouac, with whom she had a brief affair. Kerouac included her in his novel "Big Sur" (1962) as Romana Schwarz, "a big Rumanian monster beauty."

Access (note)

• Berg Collection copy is restricted access;

Source (note)

• Andrew Sclanders;

Contents

Poetry by Lenore Kandel and Walter C. Brown.

Call Number

Berg Coll+ Beats T47 1959

OCLC

27419876

Author

Haynes, Grover.

Title

Beat and beatific.

Imprint

[Studio City, Calif.] : Three Penny Press, 1959.

Access

Berg Collection copy is restricted access; request permission in holding division.

Source

Purchase; Andrew Sclanders; February 25, 2010; 007218

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Added Author

Brown, Walter C. Contributor

Kandel, Lenore. Contributor

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Beats T47 1959