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David Lerner (screenwriter)
David Lerner (November 23, 1951 – July 1, 1997) was an American outlaw poet who helped lead the influential poetry group the Babarians at Cafe Babar in San Francisco. Life Lerner was born in New York City and came from a family of Russian-Jewish renegades, growing up as a so-called " red-diaper baby". Lerner later moved to San Francisco and worked as a journalist, but left that career to live a bohemian life''The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry'' by Alan Kaufman, Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 1999, pages 218-19. because journalism interfered with his poetry."About David Lerner" by Bruce Isaacson, ''Spirit Caller Magazine'', Vol 01 Issue 01, Dangerous Insect Media, July 15, 2013, page 57-9. In the mid-Eighties he became involved with poetry readings at Cafe Babar in San Francisco's Mission District, with the group of poets there being called the Babarians.''O Powerful Western Star: Poetry & Art in California'' by Jack Foley, Pantograph Press, 2000, page 211. Described ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lerner
David Lerner (November 23, 1951 – July 1, 1997) was an American outlaw poet who helped lead the influential poetry group the Babarians at Cafe Babar in San Francisco. Life Lerner was born in New York City and came from a family of Russian-Jewish renegades, growing up as a so-called " red-diaper baby". Lerner later moved to San Francisco and worked as a journalist, but left that career to live a bohemian life''The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry'' by Alan Kaufman, Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 1999, pages 218-19. because journalism interfered with his poetry."About David Lerner" by Bruce Isaacson, ''Spirit Caller Magazine'', Vol 01 Issue 01, Dangerous Insect Media, July 15, 2013, page 57-9. In the mid-Eighties he became involved with poetry readings at Cafe Babar in San Francisco's Mission District, with the group of poets there being called the Babarians.''O Powerful Western Star: Poetry & Art in California'' by Jack Foley, Pantograph Press, 2000, page 211. Described ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Authors
''Contemporary Authors'' is a reference work which has been published by Gale since 1962. It provides short biographies and bibliographies of contemporary and near-contemporary writers. ''Contemporary Authors'' does not have selective inclusion criteria and bases much of its biographical data on information provided by the writer. However, according to Gale, the series does not include writers who publish solely with vanity presses or through other self-publishing methods. Content Entries in ''Contemporary Authors'' consist of a biography of the writer and bibliographies of their work and secondary sources covering it. Writing need not be a person's primary occupation for them to be covered in ''Contemporary Authors''; Martin Luther King Jr. and Bear Bryant have entries even though they are not mainly known as writers. The series focuses on people who have published in English, but sometimes includes writers in other languages whose works have been translated. ''Contemporary Auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Deaths
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of the most observed comets of the 20th century; Golden Bauhinia Square, where sovereignty of Hong Kong is handed over from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China; the 1997 Central European flood kills 114 people in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany; Korean Air Flight 801 crashes during heavy rain on Guam, killing 229; Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner land on Mars; flowers left outside Kensington Palace following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car crash in Paris., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Titanic (1997 film) rect 200 0 400 200 Harry Potter rect 400 0 600 200 Comet Hale-Bopp rect 0 200 300 400 Death of Diana, Princess of Wales rect 300 200 600 400 Handover of Hong Kong rect 0 400 200 600 Mars Pathfind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel '' Journey Through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Outlaw Bible Of American Poetry
''The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry'', edited by Alan Kaufman (writer), Alan Kaufman, is an anthology of American underground poets and fringe poetry from the 1950s to the 2000s."Bunker Down with a Good Book" by Meagan Black, Arc Poetry Magazine, Fall 2016, Issue 81, page 113. First published in 1999, the collection features work from several notable poets, including Jack Micheline, Patti Smith, Harold Norse, David Trinidad, Tuli Kupferberg, D.A. Levy, Bob Kaufman, Jim Chandler, Jim Brodey, Daniel Higgs, Ruth weiss (poet), ruth weiss, Jack Kerouac, Bonny Finberg, David Lerner, Richard Brautigan, Allen Ginsberg, Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs, Carlos ac Libera, Ken Kesey, Justin Chin, DianDi Prima, and FrancEyE, among others. S.A. Griffin served as a contributing editor. Kaufman uses the term "Outlaw poets" in reference to poets whose work is featured in the ''Outlaw Bible''. The definition of the term was characterised as "pretty broad" by Maria Russo in ''Salon.com'', including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Recorder (Massachusetts Newspaper)
''The Greenfield Recorder'' is an American daily newspaper published Monday through Saturday mornings in Greenfield, Massachusetts, covering all of Franklin County, Massachusetts. It is owned by Newspapers of New England, which also owns its neighbor to the south, the ''Daily Hampshire Gazette'' of Northampton, Massachusetts. As the Greenfield area's only newspaper of record A newspaper of record is a major national newspaper with large circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered authoritative and independent; they are thus "newspapers of record by reputation" and include some of the o ..., ''The Recorder'' is the primary source of local news in Franklin County. Originally published in 1792, the paper is the one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States, and the second oldest daily in Massachusetts after the ''Daily Hampshire Gazette''. References External links * Mass media in Franklin County, Massachusetts Newspapers publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Kaufman (writer)
Alan Kaufman is an American writer, memoirist and poet. He is the author of the memoirs ''Jew Boy'' and ''Drunken Angel'', the novel ''[Matches]'', and is listed as editor of ''The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. He is also listed as co-editor of ''The Outlaw Bible of American Literature'', alongside Barney Rosset and Neil Ortenberg. Background Kaufman is the editor of many anthologies, including ''The Outlaw Bible of American Literature'', which was reviewed on the cover of ''The New York Times Book Review'' and ''The New Generation:Fiction For Our Time From America's Writing Programs''. The final volume of the Outlaw anthologies trilogy, ''The Outlaw Bible of American Essays'', appeared on bookshelves during the Fall of 2006. He is also the author of a volume of poetry, 'Who Are We?'. Kaufman has taught in the graduate and undergraduate schools of the Academy of Art University and in writing workshops in San Francisco. His work has appeared in Salon (magazine), Salon, ''Los A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. Bukowski's work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column '' Notes of a Dirty Old Man'' in the LA underground newspaper ''Open City''. Bukowski published extensively in small literary magazines and with small presses beginning in the early 1940s and continuing on through the early 1990s. He wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books during the course of his career. Some of these works include his ''Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window'', published by his friend and fellow poet Charles Potts, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career spanning more than 60 years. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" (1963) and " The Times They Are a-Changin' (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and antiwar movements. His lyrics during this period incorporated a range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture. Following his self-titled debut album in 1962, which comprised mainly traditional folk songs, Dylan made his breakthrough as a songwriter with the release of ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' the following year. The album features "Blowin' in the Wind" and the thematically complex " A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall". Many of his s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robinson Jeffers
John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887 – January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Much of Jeffers's poetry was written in narrative and epic form. However, he is also known for his shorter verse and is considered an icon of the environmental movement. Influential and highly regarded in some circles, despite or because of his philosophy of "inhumanism", Jeffers believed that transcending conflict required human concerns to be de-emphasized in favor of the boundless whole. This led him to oppose U.S. participation in World War II, a stance that was controversial after the U.S. entered the war. Life Jeffers was born January 10, 1887, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), the son of Reverend Dr. William Hamilton Jeffers, a Presbyterian minister and scholar of ancient languages and Biblical history, and Annie Robinson Tuttle. His brother was Hamilton Jeffers, a well-known astronomer who worked at Lick Observator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Lyman
Melvin James Lyman (March 24, 1938 – March 1978) was an American musician and writer, and the founder of the Fort Hill Community, which has been variously described as a family, commune, or cult. Early life Lyman grew up in California and Oregon. As a young man, according to the music newsletter ''The Broadside of Boston'', he spent a number of years traveling the country and learning harmonica and banjo from such musicians as Brother Percy Randolph and Obray Ramsey.MEL LYMAN (March 24, 1938 – March 1978) In ''FolkWorks'', online version of the 2001-2007 magazine of folk & traditional music for Southern California. During a period in the early 1960s, Lyman lived in |
Mel Lyman
Melvin James Lyman (March 24, 1938 – March 1978) was an American musician and writer, and the founder of the Fort Hill Community, which has been variously described as a family, commune, or cult. Early life Lyman grew up in California and Oregon. As a young man, according to the music newsletter ''The Broadside of Boston'', he spent a number of years traveling the country and learning harmonica and banjo from such musicians as Brother Percy Randolph and Obray Ramsey.MEL LYMAN (March 24, 1938 – March 1978) In ''FolkWorks'', online version of the 2001-2007 magazine of folk & traditional music for Southern California. During a period in the early 1960s, Lyman lived in |
