Joyce Johnson a revelation - divine 90 years young. I wanna be Bohemian - dig the cool jazz - trip with Ann WALDMAN & David AmRam. - live in the Village and NorthBeach - stay @ Beat Hotel in Paris- Tangiers under Paul Bowles Sheltering Sky. Smoke hash with Brion Gysin to soundtrackof Drums of Jou Jouku. Drop acid with Ginzy & Neal Cassady @ Acid Test in San Francisco on the road to enlightenment. Frisco Tony
Thanks, Paul, and, yes, what a wonderful capturing of that period in Johnson’s Minor Characters. I so agree. And the Carolyn Cassady well worth mentioning in the same context…
This was a great read. It can’t have been easy being a woman amongst the macho and besotted beats, or in the jazz world for that matter. She’s inspiring indeed! Thanks.
Ps: My dear friend the late great Joanne Kyger sometimes related how she sometimes seemed to be seen as “the help” or even invisible among the famed male beat writers, even tho an esteemed poet herself. They were not quite feminists, and so it went…
Hi - no book, just a couple articles/interviews with her from way back when…there have been a couple books of collected writings on her work, or a more academic nature, in recent years tho…
Joyce Johnson a revelation - divine 90 years young. I wanna be Bohemian - dig the cool jazz - trip with Ann WALDMAN & David AmRam. - live in the Village and NorthBeach - stay @ Beat Hotel in Paris- Tangiers under Paul Bowles Sheltering Sky. Smoke hash with Brion Gysin to soundtrackof Drums of Jou Jouku. Drop acid with Ginzy & Neal Cassady @ Acid Test in San Francisco on the road to enlightenment. Frisco Tony
Thank you for the compliment on the interview and what a wild piece of spontaneous evocation…
Wonderful. As with Carolyn Cassady I enjoyed Joyce's 'Minor Characters' immensely back in the day when I eventually found it.
Thanks, Paul, and, yes, what a wonderful capturing of that period in Johnson’s Minor Characters. I so agree. And the Carolyn Cassady well worth mentioning in the same context…
This was a great read. It can’t have been easy being a woman amongst the macho and besotted beats, or in the jazz world for that matter. She’s inspiring indeed! Thanks.
Your complimentary response gratefully received, Steve. I’m glad you enjoyed the piece…
Ps: My dear friend the late great Joanne Kyger sometimes related how she sometimes seemed to be seen as “the help” or even invisible among the famed male beat writers, even tho an esteemed poet herself. They were not quite feminists, and so it went…
Thanks again.
Hiding Out With Joanne Kyger
By Steve Heilig
https://theava.com/archives/8474
Good points well made, Steve. Is your Kyger book recent?
Hi - no book, just a couple articles/interviews with her from way back when…there have been a couple books of collected writings on her work, or a more academic nature, in recent years tho…
Thx!
S