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Title

The poets' follies of 1958 : one night only! at 8 p.m. : Sunday, May 11 Seven Arts Center at Fugazi Hall [...].

Publication

[San Francisco} : s.n., 1958.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence.
• Grieg, Michael.
• Johnson, Robert E.
• Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982.
• Richards, Charles.
• Rose, Wally.

Description

[1] sheet ; ill.,; 28 cm.

Subjects

• Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982 > Anecdotes
• Beats (Persons) in literature > Sources
• Beat generation > California > San Francisco > Sources

Note

• Mimeograph broadside announcing the fourth year of the Poet's Follies, printed in red and black on pink paper, with cartoon figures of South Sea native man holding oar; Napoleon [?] on rearing horse; and horse-drawn funeral carriage.
• Participants include Wally Rose, Kenneth Rexroth, William Ackridge, [Michael] Grieg, [Lawrence] Ferlinghetti; lutenist Karl Herreshoff; the Brew More-Dickie Mills Quartet; Bob Helm & City Lights Jazz Band; and the Ida Wilcher Dance Troupe.
• "New Poems & Songs / Premiere Presentation of a Film by William Heick / The Dance & Poetry / Beat Music."
• See: James Reidel. Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees. (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), p. 327-338.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Call Number

Berg Coll+ Beats P64 1958

OCLC

822058258

Title

The poets' follies of 1958 : one night only! at 8 p.m. : Sunday, May 11 Seven Arts Center at Fugazi Hall [...].

Imprint

[San Francisco} : s.n., 1958.

Access

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Local Note

Berg Collection copy with undated autograph letter, signed, by Charles Richards of the City Lights Jazz Band, to poet Robert E. Johnson, on verso, giving history of his band and also of the musicians, including Bob Helm abd Brew Moore, who 'supplemented' it. He also claims to have co-produced the 1958 Follies, though poet Michael Grieg did not give him credit. He claims that all of the poets, especially Rexroth, hated Grieg, and that it was he, Richards, who convinced Rexroth to appear, seeing which, Ferlinghetti (and presumably the other poets) relented and also appeared.

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Added Author

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Performer

Grieg, Michael. Performer

Johnson, Robert E. Addressee

Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982. Performer

Richards, Charles. Author

Richards, Charles. Performer

Rose, Wally. Performer

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Beats P64 1958