Memoirs of a Bastard Angel

Literature & Fiction

NORSE, Harold

History & Criticism

London : Bloomsbury

By the author of 12 volumes of poetry and the novel "Beat Hotel", this autobiography describes the life of a man who was for over 50 years at the centre of creative culture and homosexual subculture in three continents. Friend and secretary of W.H.Auden in 1939, he became an intimate friend of James Baldwin and lived with Tennessee Williams during the writing of "The Glass Menagerie". He spent time at the Beat Hotel with William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, in Tangier with Paul and Jane Bowles, in Spain with Robert Graves, and in Greece with Leonard Cohen. In the late 1960s he moved to California, where he formed a literary alliance with Charles Bukowski and did bodybuilding with Arnold Schwarzenegger. He presents vivid portraits of the great writers of his time.

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Hotel Nirvana; selected poems, 1953-1973 (The Pocket poets series)

CITY LIGHTS

Praise for Harold Norse's poetry: WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: "I believe in your intellectual honesty and in what you are doing with the American idiom of which you are an intrinsic genius." CHARLES BUKOWSKI: "He can't write a bad line. I've never seen one. . . . He is one of the great ones of our rather strange times." JAMES BALWIN: If light ever enters the hearts of men, Harold Norse will be one of the writers who will have helped to set it there." ALLEN GINSBERG: "I was kept amazed by your sense of reality, by your awareness of the thing in these poems."

Harold Norse, the Love Poems, 1940-1985

Poetry

Crossing Press,U.S.

Harold Norse: The Love Poems, 1940-1985

Crossing Pr

<p>Bound in publisher's original wraps, with brown and white cover illustration. Title and author stamped in black on front cover, spine stamped in white.</p>

Beat Hotel

Atticus Pr

Atticus Press

Mysteries of Magritte

Bookpeople

collected letters between poets Norse & Williams 

The American Idiom: A Correspondence

Wilson, John J.

Williams, William Carolos

United States

Bright Tyger Pr

<p>Harold Norse has spent half a century simultaneously at the center and in the vanguard of literary and homosexual subcultures. His career began in 1939, when W. H. Auden seduced and “married” Norse’s college lover, Chester Kallman. In Greenwich Village Norse became an intimate of James Baldwin (then working on his first novel) and in Provincetown lived with Tennessee Williams, who was completing The Glass Menagerie. In 1952, William Carlos Williams presented Norse at his reading debut calling Norse “the best poet of your generation.” Other admirers included Anais Nin, Dylan Thomas, Christopher Isherwood, and e.e. Cummings. In the 1960s in Paris, Norse codeveloped the innovative Cut-up method while living in the Beat Hotel with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso. In North Africa, Greece, and Spain Norse befriended Robert Graves, Leonard Cohen, and Paul and Jane Bowles. Repatriating to Venice, California, in 1968, Norse formed a literary alliance with Charles Bukowski (who called him “one of the great ones”) and lifted weights with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Under any circumstances this book would be a major social document, but because he is a superb, evocative stylist, Harold Norse’s candid autobiography is an engrossing classic of its kind. “Harold Norse’s beautiful Memoirs (are) going to be right by my bedside with Flaubert and Marquez. It’s an exalted work!”—Andrei Codrescu, “All Things Considered,” National Public Radio “Magically evocative and visual, Memoirs of a Bastard Angel literally reads itself. ”—William Burroughs “Harold Norse has lived a life beyond my powers of imagination.”—Armistead Maupin</p>

Memoirs of a Bastard Angel: A Fifty-Year Literary and Erotic Odyssey

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Thunder's Mouth Press

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