John Wieners
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John Wieners (born 6 January 1934 in Milton, Massachusetts, and died 1 March 2002 in Boston) was a United States lyric poet. Wieners graduated from Boston College in 1954 and enrolled at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. In 1958 he moved to San Francisco, associating with painter, Robert LaVigne, poet, Robert Duncan and other writers and bohemians. His first work,The Hotel Wentley Poems, was published in 1958. He soon became a fellow of University at Buffalo and did extensive work with the Poet's Theater, Cambridge he wrote three plays during this time. He published Nerves in 1970 and Behind the State Capitol or Cincinnati Pike in 1975. He was institutionalized several times during his life, but did not exploit it in his work.
He was considered a "Beat" poet.
A Book of Prophecies is due to be published, spring 2007, by Bootstrap Press. The manuscript was discovered in 2006 at the Kent State University library by poet Michael Carr who has been assisted by an advisory group consisting of Jim Dunn, Raymond Foye, and Charlie Shively. Ironically, the manuscript, which was written by Wieners in 1971, opens with a poem titled "2007".
[edit] References
- Charters, Ann (ed.). The Portable Beat Reader. Penguin Books. New York. 1992. ISBN 0-670-83885-3 (hc); ISBN 0-14-015102-8 (pbk)
[edit] External links
- Two poems by John Wieners
- University of Delaware profile
- A poem for record players, by John Wieners
- John Wieners resource page by Tom Raworth
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