Robert Duncan in San Francisco
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.21 (503 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0912516135 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 92 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Rumaker positions his in-depth, eloquent portrait of Robert Duncan against this turbulent city background, and contrasts Robert's open gay life as a poet with his own painful covert sexuality.. Meanwhile the police are stepping up their hassling of hippies on upper Grant Avenue and arresting gays on Polk Street. The Place is where the poets and painters hang out and Jack Spicer directs the Blabbermouth nights. Allen Ginsberg, after the notorious readings of his poem HOWL in 1956, has departed for Tangier, but the young Beats are invading North Beach and a dope scene is blooming. Michael Rumaker centers his memoir in 1957 San Francisco, where many fellow Black Mountain students are migrating since the close of the College. This is the summer of the famous HOWL trial where Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Shigeyoshi Murao, of City Lights, are prosecuted for selling Allen Ginsberg's book
Robert Duncan and San Francisco before Gay Rights Jim G This is an outstanding account both of Robert Duncan's role in the San Francisco "renaissance" of the 1950s, which intersects with (but is not limited to nor primarily of) the Beatnik movement in San Francisco and the rise of the gay subculture, and of Rumaker's personal odyssey as a gay man in a city still dominated by Irish cops and forces explicitly hostile to an implicit gay city.One shakes with Rumaker's ac. A Gathering of Singular Talent Jim Duggins, Ph.D. Michael Rumaker's book, "Robert Duncan in San Francisco," is an articulate and sensitive account of an era now gone, but one that left a foot pad for great things to follow. His personal relationship with a Columbus circle of friends and his willingness to share it with us is a treat few biographers manage. In addition, the significance of this gathering of artists and authors in San Francisco at that time canno. "MARVELOUS" according to Michael S. Stewart. Upfront, I'm biased: I know many of the people involved in this book. But as a student and lover of post-war American poetry, I can't tell you how much genuine delight this book brought me; I wouldn't be taking the time to write this otherwise. The core essay is somewhat slight, being an essay rather than a full-length memoir, but it's supplemented by such great material - letters, and a terrific interview with
Robert Duncan in San Francisco stands with books like Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man as important works on gay liberation."—KCET L.A. It's also a tender and intelligent account of a young man's coming to grips with being gay in the midst of this upheaval. Much more than memir; it's history."—Russell Banks"Robert Duncan in San Francisco offers a surprising portrait of a mentor in all his witty, wicked, luminous, and vulnerable complexity. "This is a wonderfully revealing account of a series of life-changing collisions between a young writer (Rumaker), an older writer(Duncan), a still older mentor for both (Charles Olson), a city (San Francisco), and an important era in American literature (the 1950s), when it was being turned up