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An oral history of a poet who intersected with nearly every innovative poetic movement of the late twentieth century.
List of contents
A note on Joanne Kyger by Robert Creeley
Introduction ¿ Cedar Sigo
Interview with Paul Watsky
from The Japan and India Journals, 1960¿1964: March 1962
Two poems from The Tapestry and the Web
Interview with Trevor Carolan
Memories of Kerouac ¿ Joanne Kyger
Letter from Lew Welch (Jan. 9th 1960)
Buzz Time ¿ Joanne Kyger
Buzz photo ¿ Jim Hatch
Two poems from The Tapestry and the Web
Interview with Linda Russo
with photos by Joanne Kyger circa 1958
Letter from Paris (April 19, 1966) ¿ Joanne Kyger & Larry Fagin
Letter from Philip Whalen (1967)
Still from Descartes (film, 1968)
Letter from Charles Olson (1968)
from Descartes and The Splendor Of
Interview with Bobbie Kimball
Cover from Joanne (1970, photo by Bill Berkson)
Letter to Philip Whalen (1969)
from Desecheo Notebook
Interview with Lawrence Nahem
Robert Creeley ¿ Joanne Kyger
Bolinas Hearsay News: Interview with Stephanie Anderson,
covers by Arthur Okamura, Philip Whalen & Donald Guravich
Kent State Arts Festival (1974): broadside and interview
from Trip Out and Fall Back
Gregory Corso ¿ Joanne Kyger
Interview with John Thorpe
¿Full of Birds in the First¿ ¿ Joanne Kyger
Bird Notebooks ¿ Joanne Kyger
Robert Creeley Introduction to Joanne Kyger Reading (1982)
Interview with Dale Smith & Michael Price
from Lo & Behold
Interview with David Meltzer
Joe Brainard ¿ Joanne Kyger
Journal sequence for Joe Brainard ¿ Joanne Kyger
Frames ¿ Anne Waldman (1968)
Questions for Joanne Kyger ¿ Anne Waldman
New Millennium Trip to Patzcuaro ¿ Joanne Kyger (2002)
Interview with Tyler Doherty and Tom Morgan
DEER CROWN ¿ Michael McClure (2003)
Interview with Chris McCreary
¿School for Flowers¿ ¿ Joanne Kyger (July 19th 1995)
¿When I step through the door..¿ ¿ Joanne Kyger (1986)
About the author
One of the major poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, Joanne Kyger was born in 1934 in Vallejo, CA. After studying at UC Santa Barbara, she moved to San Francisco in 1957, where she became a member of the circle of poets centered around Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. In 1960, she joined Gary Snyder in Japan and soon traveled to India where, along with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, they met the Dalai Lamaall experiences she has written extensively about. She returned to California in 1964 and published her first book, The Tapestry and the Web, in 1965. In 1969, she settled on the coast north of San Francisco, where she continues to reside today. She has published over 30 books of poetry and prose, including The Japan and India Journals: 1960-1964 (2015), On Time: Poems 2005-2014 (2015), As Ever: Selected Poems (2002), and About Now: Collected Poems (2007), which won the 2008 Josephine Miles Award from PEN Oakland. She has taught at Naropa University, The New College of California, and Mills College. In 2006 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry, including Royals (Wave Books, 2017), Language Arts (Wave Books, 2014), Stranger in Town (City Lights, 2010), Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008), and two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003 and 2005). He has taught workshops at St. Mary’s College, Naropa University, and University Press Books. He lives in San Francisco.
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An oral history of a poet who intersected with nearly every innovative poetic movement of the late twentieth century.
