Research Catalog

Title

Beards and brown bags / [editor: Grover Haynes].

Publication

Studio City, Calif. : Three Penny Press : Distributed by Paper Editions Corporation, c1959.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Haynes, Grover.
• Abel, Hank.
• Kandel, Lenore.
• Loranger, Fred.
• O'Sullivan, Padriec Suemus.

Description

[28] p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Subjects

• Beats (Persons) > California > Los Angeles
• Beats (Persons) > Poetry
• Bohemianism > United States
• Beats (Persons) > California > San Francisco
• American poetry > 20th century

Note

• Cover title.
• Staple-bound in mimeographed yellow paper wrappers, with title in black on front wrapper.
• Hand-lettering by Rosie Haynes. --From the copyright page.
• Text printed on tan, green, orange, and white paper.
• "Since the birth of a philosopher-carpenter in the year one, bohemianism has been a mode of coping with the dilemna of how to express one's creativity and still make bread. In spite of this fact, the curiousity of this nation was aroused a few years ago by a newspaper's account of a new type of human arising on the San Francisco scene, the 'Beatnik.'" --from the Preface.
• Three Penny Press statement of purpose on final two pages, beginning: 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 main sources of poetry are the poetry readings that are conducted at coffee houses in Los Angeles, Venice West, and San Francisco and, poetry which we receive by mail."
• 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 violation of California's obscenity law, resulting in the seizure of all copies of the pamphlet from City Lights Books and The Psychedelic 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."
• With drawing by "Piven" of woman's face with head covered by a hood, and of beatnik musicians playing behind a beatnik poet reading from his manuscript.

Access (note)

• Berg Collection is restricted access;

Source (note)

• Andrew Sclanders;

Contents

Poetry by Lenore Kandel, Fred Loranger, Walter C. Brown, and Padriec Suemus O'Sullivan, Doris Danica Mrakich, and Jerry Stephens and Chuck Logan; and prose poem by Hank Abel.

Call Number

Berg Coll+ Beats B43 1959

OCLC

21383739

Title

Beards and brown bags / [editor: Grover Haynes].

Imprint

Studio City, Calif. : Three Penny Press : Distributed by Paper Editions Corporation, c1959.

Access

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

Source

Purchase; Andrew Sclanders; February 25, 2010; 007223

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Added Author

Haynes, Grover.

Abel, Hank. Contributor

Kandel, Lenore. Contributor

Loranger, Fred. Contributor

O'Sullivan, Padriec Suemus. Contributor

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Beats B43 1959