Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, Lew Welch, William Everson (Brother Antoninus), Michael MeClure, Richard Brautigan

David Meltzer  (редактор)

Мека корица, джобен формат / 339 стр.

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Their words became a part of the San Francisco sound heard round the world. Bards of this generation, they here reveal themselves through their own poetry and in highly unusual, candid interviews with another young San Francisco poet, David Meltzer. Here, too, is a complete bibliography of the San Francisco poetry scene since the days of the "Beats."

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Contents

GOLDEN GATE: Introduction 1

KENNETH REXROTH

Interviews 9

The Wheel Revolves   56/   On What Planet 57/ Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22,1937 58/   Another Early Morning Exercise 60/ Night Below Zero   62/   A Sword in a Cloud of Light   63/   From: "The Heart's Garden The Garden's Heart"   65/   Moon Festival 66/   By The Winding River I 67/ Galleries (Galeries) 69

WILLIAM EVERSON (BROTHER ANTONINUS)

Interviews 73

October Tragedy 122/ Muscat Pruning 122/ These Are the Ravens 123/ The Screed of the Flesh 124

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

Interviews 135

Autobiography   172/   From: "Starting From San Francisco"   180/   Hidden Door 184

LEW WELCH

Interviews 189

Skunk Cabbage   201/   I Want the Whole Thing, the Moment (Untitled poems are listed in italic by first line)   202/   Sausalito Trash Prayer   206/   I Saw Myself   225/ Chicago Poem   228/   What strange pleasure do they get 230/   Not yet 40, my beard is already white 231/   I know a man's supposed to have his hair cut short   231/   Step out onto the Planet 232/   Whenever I make a new poem 232/ The image, as in a Hexagram   233/ Philosophy 234/   The Basic Con   234/   Course College Graduation Address   235/   Song of the Turkey Buzzard   235/   The Song Mt. Tamalpais Sings 249

MICHAEL MC CLURE

Interviews 243

But the desire to know and feel are not eased 247/   The Mystery of the Hunt   277/ Point Lobos: Animism   278/   From: "Peyote Poem" 279/   The Chamber   284/   The Surge 286

RICHARD BRAUTIGAN

Interviews 293

Jules Verne Zucchini   295/   Propelled by Portals Whose Only Shame   295/ Donner Party   296/   In Her Sweetness Where She Folds My Wounds   296/   The Elbow of A Dead Duck 297/   As the Bruises Fade, the Lightning Aches 297

LIST OF WORKS BY THE SIX POETS

Kenneth Rexroth                                                                     299

William Everson (Brother Antoninus)                               300

Lawrence Ferlinghetti                                                           301

Lew Welch                                                                                302

Michael McClure                                                                     303

Richard Brautigan                                                                 304

BOOKSTORES                                                                      307

SF POETRY CHRONOLOGY                                             309

PRINTERS                                                                             319

COURSES                                                                              321