Harold Norse, 1988 San Francisco – photo: Allen Ginsberg – courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate
Remembering today on the anniversary of his birth, the poet Harold Norse (1916-2009).
See our extensive 2014 post (on the occasion of the publication of I Am Going To Fly Through Glass, his Selected Poems, lovingly edited by Todd Swindell) – here.
See also his web-site, the wonderfully-informative, crisp and comprehensive haroldnorse.com – here
Here’s rare footage of the poet, speaking on the early influence of William Carlos Williams and on first meeting Allen. [2021 update this footage is regrettably no longer available] (the full story of that encounter is descriptively conveyed in his 1989 Memoirs of A Bastard Angel )
Remembering a”bastard angel”