Title: Collection of 6 letters and 3 postcards signed by Philip Whalen to noted publisher/editor Donald M. Allen Author: Whalen, Philip Place: Santa Fe, NM Publisher: Date: 1984-87 Description: With: 6 letters (11x8½): five are autograph letters signed and one typed letter signed. Dated: 6/7/84 (2 pages on 1 sheet), 6/16/86 (2 pages), 7/28/86 (3 typed pages, signed in pencil with holograph corrections), 8/14/86 (2 pages), 9/24/86 (2 pages on 1 sheet with original mailing envelope), and 3/28/87 (one page). Letters discuss topics ranging from daily life in Santa Fe, health, weight concerns, efforts at publishing his “Two Novels” [You Didn’t Even Try & Imaginary Speeches] with Zephyr Press, his participation in various poetry readings and conferences with Anne Waldman, Gary Snyder, and others. In July 1986, he writes: “Allen G[insberg] has invited me to read & talk to his class at Brookyln College early in March 1987, and I’ll also appear at St. Mark’s Poetry Project.” Also, discusses the Naropa Institute and the purchase of a Zen Center on Potrero Hill (San Francisco). Letter dated June 7, 1984: “I still haven’t really cheered up since I heard about Brautigan. I feel old and useless.” And, “Ginsberg’s postcard from China makes me want to pack up and go there.” * And, 3 autographed postcards (two from 1985 and one from 1986), 3½x5½. In 1/23/86 postmarked card, Whalen writes: “Dear Don, Thanks for the checks & royalty record. I linger on here, waiting for the time when we can meet over the tragic little corpse of a tea-backed duck once more. Or even a number of sauce drowned squids at Little Joe’s on Broadway…All best, Phil.” Interesting and significant content from one of the major Beat Poets and key figures in the San Francisco Renaissance, Philip Whalen (1923-2002), to the influential editor, publisher and translator of important American literature, Donald M. Allen (1912-2004). Whalen attended Reed College with Gary Snyder and Lew Welch, graduating in 1951. Read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, marking the launch of the West Coast Beats into the public eye, etc., etc. Don Allen edited The New American Poetry, 1945-1960, which is the first major anthology containing significant Beat Generation authors. At Four Seasons Foundation, he helped in publishing: Interviews (1980) by Edward Dorn, A Quick Graph: Collected Notes and Essays (1970) by Robert Creeley, etc. In 1997, he helped edit the Collected Prose of Charles Olson (University of California Press). Lot Amendments Condition: Original folds, else fine. Item number: 180642
Title: Collection of 6 letters and 3 postcards signed by Philip Whalen to noted publisher/editor Donald M. Allen Author: Whalen, Philip Place: Santa Fe, NM Publisher: Date: 1984-87 Description: With: 6 letters (11x8½): five are autograph letters signed and one typed letter signed. Dated: 6/7/84 (2 pages on 1 sheet), 6/16/86 (2 pages), 7/28/86 (3 typed pages, signed in pencil with holograph corrections), 8/14/86 (2 pages), 9/24/86 (2 pages on 1 sheet with original mailing envelope), and 3/28/87 (one page). Letters discuss topics ranging from daily life in Santa Fe, health, weight concerns, efforts at publishing his “Two Novels” [You Didn’t Even Try & Imaginary Speeches] with Zephyr Press, his participation in various poetry readings and conferences with Anne Waldman, Gary Snyder, and others. In July 1986, he writes: “Allen G[insberg] has invited me to read & talk to his class at Brookyln College early in March 1987, and I’ll also appear at St. Mark’s Poetry Project.” Also, discusses the Naropa Institute and the purchase of a Zen Center on Potrero Hill (San Francisco). Letter dated June 7, 1984: “I still haven’t really cheered up since I heard about Brautigan. I feel old and useless.” And, “Ginsberg’s postcard from China makes me want to pack up and go there.” * And, 3 autographed postcards (two from 1985 and one from 1986), 3½x5½. In 1/23/86 postmarked card, Whalen writes: “Dear Don, Thanks for the checks & royalty record. I linger on here, waiting for the time when we can meet over the tragic little corpse of a tea-backed duck once more. Or even a number of sauce drowned squids at Little Joe’s on Broadway…All best, Phil.” Interesting and significant content from one of the major Beat Poets and key figures in the San Francisco Renaissance, Philip Whalen (1923-2002), to the influential editor, publisher and translator of important American literature, Donald M. Allen (1912-2004). Whalen attended Reed College with Gary Snyder and Lew Welch, graduating in 1951. Read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, marking the launch of the West Coast Beats into the public eye, etc., etc. Don Allen edited The New American Poetry, 1945-1960, which is the first major anthology containing significant Beat Generation authors. At Four Seasons Foundation, he helped in publishing: Interviews (1980) by Edward Dorn, A Quick Graph: Collected Notes and Essays (1970) by Robert Creeley, etc. In 1997, he helped edit the Collected Prose of Charles Olson (University of California Press). Lot Amendments Condition: Original folds, else fine. Item number: 180642
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