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The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen
Philip Whalen; Michael Rothenberg, ed.; Gary Snyder, fwd.; Leslie Scalapino, intro.
Wesleyan University Press
distributed by University Press of New England
2007 • 932 pp. 92 doodles 6 x 9"
Poetry
$49.95 Cloth, 978-0-8195-6859-5
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The collected work of a legendary San Francisco Renaissance and Beat poet
One of the most path-breaking and creatively radical poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, Philip Whalen was part of the 1955 Six Gallery reading where the West Coast Beat movement famously began. Working alongside Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Jack Kerouac, Whalen developed a conversational and visually unorthodox style that is unique in contemporary poetry. His lifelong engagement with the impermanent and sensuous, concerns deepened by his commitment to Zen Buddhism, are on rich display here, along with his warm humor and original illustrations. This Collected Poems rightfully places Whalen among the foremost poets of his time, offering readers a truly major body of American poetic work.
“Philip Whalen is one of the great but still largely unrecognized sources of our literature. This volume provides the opportunity to read all his published poems in the order of their writing. A masterpiece of the jump-start collected mind!”
—Clark Coolidge, author of The Crystal Text
“This definitive volume reveals the pure ease of an ambling and mighty mind. Whalen is ever the erudite teacher, reminding one, above all, to ‘banish shoddy thinking’! This book should be the cornerstone of every poet's library.”—Joanne Kyger, author of About Now: Collected Poems
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PHILIP WHALEN (1923–2002) was an influential Beat poet and the author of dozens of books of novels and poetry, including On Bear’s Head, The Diamond Noodle, and Overtime. MICHAEL ROTHENBERG is one of the literary executors of Whalen’s estate, and the editor of www.bigbridge.org. Also the editor of major volumes of selected poetry by Philip Whalen, Joanne Kyger, David Meltzer, and Edward Dorn, he lives north of San Francisco.
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