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Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth ...
Jack Gilbert (February 18, 1925 – November 13, 2012) was an American poet. Gilbert was acquainted with Jack Spicer and Allen Ginsberg, both prominent figureheads of the Beat Movement, but is not considered a Beat Poet; he described himself as a "serious romantic." [1] [2] Over his five-decade-long career, he published five full collections of ...
Kazuko Shiraishi (白石 かずこ, Shiraishi Kazuko, 27 February 1931 [1] – 14 June 2024) was a Japanese poet and translator who was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She was a modernist, outsider poet who got her start in Katsue Kitazono 's "VVOU" poetry group, which led Shiraishi to publish her first book of poems in 1951.
The author of over 60 published books (guides, novels, biographies and volumes of poetry) he also wrote travel features for inflight, international and Sri Lankan magazines. [15] [16] [17] In 2013, a collection of his beat poetry, Gone Man Squared, was published in the United States by Kicks Books, the imprint of Norton Records.
Born in Yonkers, N.Y., in 1919, Ferlinghetti was best known for his first collection of poetry titled “A […] Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Who Helped Launch the Beat Movement, Dies at 101 Skip ...
Sheldon “Shel” Talmy, the American-born producer behind classic ‘60s songs by the Who, the Kinks, the Easybeats and even a teenaged David Bowie, died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles ...
David Meltzer (February 17, 1937 – December 31, 2016) was an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Lawrence Ferlinghetti described him as "one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San Francisco poets and musicians". [1]
In contrast to Corso's use of marriage as a synecdoche for a Beat view of women, postmodern feminist poet Hedwig Gorski chronicles a night with Corso in her poem "Could not get Gregory Corso out of my Car" (1985, Austin, Texas) showing the womanizing typical for heterosexual Beat behavior. [21]