#beatpoets — Public Fediverse posts
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“When I write I am not thinking of an audience. I just sort of get caught up in the ballad... to me poetry is a terrific force. If you don't write for its own sake, you are not a writer.”
Five poems being read by Helen Adam
7/7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re0m3bskuVk
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #supernatural #ballads #SanFrancisco #BeatPoets #poetry
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In a house by a river that lamented as it ran,
Lived a father, and his daughter, and the dog-headed man…—Helen Adam, “A Tale Best Forgotten”
from TO GO INTO THE WOODS, by Norman Finkelstein (University of Michigan Press, 2023)6/7
https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/To-Go-Into-the-Words2
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #supernatural #ballads #SanFrancisco #BeatPoets #poetry
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“Helen Adam is a poet’s poet, for it is in her own tribe that she has been most read and praised, despite her long history of public readings”
—Norman Finkelstein, in his chapter on Helen Adam in TO GO INTO THE WOODS (University of Michigan Press, 2023)
5/7
https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/To-Go-Into-the-Words2
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #supernatural #ballads #SanFrancisco #BeatPoets #poetry
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“Adam’s embrace of the supernatural… is made relevant to a contemporary struggle over gender inequalities”
—Cindy McMann, “Helen Adam & the Feminist Gothic Imagination”, IRISH JOURNAL OF GOTHIC & HORROR STUDIES 6, July 2009
4/7
https://irishgothicjournal.net/issue6/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #supernatural #ballads #SanFrancisco #BeatPoets #poetry
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“She was a poet out of time, stretched. Out of a dark visceral realm. Every cell of her body wrote ballads, every cell of her body chanted them… She could scare the pants off God”
—Alexia Marmara, “Helen Adam & the Grue: Collage, Rhyme, & the Occult Imagination”
3/7
https://awomensthing.org/blog/helen-adam/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #supernatural #poetry #ballads #SanFrancisco #BeatPoets #poetry #collage #visualart
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“The story of Helen Adam is a tumble down the rabbit hole… Helen brought witchcraft, horror ballads and camp attitude into the beatnik scene in San Francisco, to the dirty punk New York of the 70s and the queer Berlin of the 80s”
Helen Adam: Daydream of Darkness is a forthcoming documentary. Watch the trailer:
2/7
https://www.pickypictures.se/adaydreamofdarkness
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #supernatural #ballads #SanFrancisco #BeatPoets #NewYork #punk #Berlin #queer #poetry
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“Helen Adam marched through her life to the beat of her own drum”
—Kristin PrevalletHelen Adam (1909–1993) – fey child prodigy (published by Faber & Faber at 14) & daughter of the manse; bardic matriarch of the San Francisco Beats; Worm Queen – was born #OTD, 2 Dec.
A 🎂🧵
1/7
https://caesuramag.org/posts/kristin-prevallet-poems-by-helen-adam
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #supernatural #ballads #SanFrancisco #BeatPoets #poetry
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This week's book:
Nothing is true everything is permitted: The life of Brion Gysin
by John Geiger -
The Gaslight Cafe
The Greenwich Village coffeehouse opened in 1958. Originally it was a "basket house" where unpaid performers would pass around a basket at the end of each set in order to be paid. The cafe became a gathering place for beatniks, artists, poets, and folk singers with a large variety of performances.
#gaslightcafe #gaslightcoffeehouse #cafe #coffeehouse #greenwichvillage #the60s #thesixties #the50s #thefifties #beatniks #beatpoets #folksingers #thevillage #nyc #thegaslight #thegaslightcafe #dickwoods #cafelife #baskethouse
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The Gaslight Cafe
The Greenwich Village coffeehouse opened in 1958. Originally it was a "basket house" where unpaid performers would pass around a basket at the end of each set in order to be paid. The cafe became a gathering place for beatniks, artists, poets, and folk singers with a large variety of performances.
#gaslightcafe #gaslightcoffeehouse #cafe #coffeehouse #greenwichvillage #the60s #thesixties #the50s #thefifties #beatniks #beatpoets #folksingers #thevillage #nyc #thegaslight #thegaslightcafe #dickwoods #cafelife #baskethouse
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The Gaslight Cafe
The Greenwich Village coffeehouse opened in 1958. Originally it was a "basket house" where unpaid performers would pass around a basket at the end of each set in order to be paid. The cafe became a gathering place for beatniks, artists, poets, and folk singers with a large variety of performances.
#gaslightcafe #gaslightcoffeehouse #cafe #coffeehouse #greenwichvillage #the60s #thesixties #the50s #thefifties #beatniks #beatpoets #folksingers #thevillage #nyc #thegaslight #thegaslightcafe #dickwoods #cafelife #baskethouse
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The Gaslight Cafe
The Greenwich Village coffeehouse opened in 1958. Originally it was a "basket house" where unpaid performers would pass around a basket at the end of each set in order to be paid. The cafe became a gathering place for beatniks, artists, poets, and folk singers with a large variety of performances.
#gaslightcafe #gaslightcoffeehouse #cafe #coffeehouse #greenwichvillage #the60s #thesixties #the50s #thefifties #beatniks #beatpoets #folksingers #thevillage #nyc #thegaslight #thegaslightcafe #dickwoods #cafelife #baskethouse
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The Gaslight Cafe
The Greenwich Village coffeehouse opened in 1958. Originally it was a "basket house" where unpaid performers would pass around a basket at the end of each set in order to be paid. The cafe became a gathering place for beatniks, artists, poets, and folk singers with a large variety of performances.
#gaslightcafe #gaslightcoffeehouse #cafe #coffeehouse #greenwichvillage #the60s #thesixties #the50s #thefifties #beatniks #beatpoets #folksingers #thevillage #nyc #thegaslight #thegaslightcafe #dickwoods #cafelife #baskethouse
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Corso read this poem at New College in Oxford in 1958. Many members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament were there, and they didn't appreciate Corso's humorous, ambivalent tone. He was heckled. Allen Ginsberg tried to explain what Corso was trying to express, and ended up calling the students a bunch of assholes.