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From Beat scene poet to psychedelic multimedia artist in San Francisco and beyond, 1948-1978 : oral history transcript / 2001.
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Title:

From Beat scene poet to psychedelic multimedia artist in San Francisco and beyond, 1948-1978 : oral history transcript / 2001

Creator/Contributor:

Stern, Gerd, creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Byerly, Victoria Morris, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

Childhood and education in New York City; discovering poetry; moving to California, 1940s; writing poetry; meeting Allen Ginsberg, Maya Angelou; marriage to Jane Hill; marriage to Ann London; writing for Playboy magazine, 1960s; living on houseboat in Sausalito; USCO (mulitmedia art); marriage to Sally Shaw; Michael Callahan and Intermedia Systems Corp.; entering family cheese import business; reflections on art, poetry, counterculture, drugs, and the cheese industry. Includes sixty poems, with some commentary.

Date:

2001 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Interviews
Artists, American -- 20th century -- Interviews
Beats (Persons) -- California
Psychedelic art -- California
Multimedia (Art) -- California

Note:

Gerd Stern ; with an introduction by Ivan Majdrakoff. Interviews conducted by Victoria Morris Byerly in 1996. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Also available online.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley and the interviewee. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Volume includes index.

Type:

biography
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
1 v. (ix, 397 p.) : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.
23 sound cassettes.

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley and the interviewee. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.