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Book SynopsisThe inaugural book of Wave's new interview series, There You Are combines forty years of interviews, letters, poems, and journals to present a narrative of the remarkable poet Joanne Kyger, who has intersected with the most influential movements of late twentieth-century poetry, yet has remained rooted in her daily practice with a forthright attention to our present moment. One of the major poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, Joanne Kyger was born in 1934 in Vallejo, CA. After studying at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she moved to San Francisco in 1957, where she became a member of the circle of poets centered around Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. In 1960, she joined Gary Snyder in Japan and soon traveled to India with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky. She returned to California in 1964 and published her first book, The Tapestry and the Web, in 1965. In 1969, she settled in Bolinas, California, where she continues to reside today. She has published over thirty books of poetry and prose, including The Japan and India Journals: 1960-1964, On Time: Poems 2005-2014, As Ever: Selected Poems, and About Now: Collected Poems, which won the 2008 Josephine Miles Award from PEN Oakland. Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry, including Royals, Language Arts, Stranger in Town, Expensive Magic, and two editions of Selected Writings.
Table of ContentsA note on Joanne Kyger by Robert Creeley Introduction – Cedar Sigo Interview with Paul Watsky from The Japan and India Journals, 1960–1964: March 1962 Two poems from The Tapestry and the Web Interview with Trevor Carolan Memories of Kerouac – Joanne Kyger Letter from Lew Welch (Jan. 9th 1960) Buzz Time – Joanne Kyger Buzz photo – Jim Hatch Two poems from The Tapestry and the Web Interview with Linda Russo with photos by Joanne Kyger circa 1958 Letter from Paris (April 19, 1966) – Joanne Kyger & Larry Fagin Letter from Philip Whalen (1967) Still from Descartes (film, 1968) Letter from Charles Olson (1968) from Descartes and The Splendor Of Interview with Bobbie Kimball Cover from Joanne (1970, photo by Bill Berkson) Letter to Philip Whalen (1969) from Desecheo Notebook Interview with Lawrence Nahem Robert Creeley – Joanne Kyger Bolinas Hearsay News: Interview with Stephanie Anderson, covers by Arthur Okamura, Philip Whalen & Donald Guravich Kent State Arts Festival (1974): broadside and interview from Trip Out and Fall Back Gregory Corso – Joanne Kyger Interview with John Thorpe “Full of Birds in the First” – Joanne Kyger Bird Notebooks – Joanne Kyger Robert Creeley Introduction to Joanne Kyger Reading (1982) Interview with Dale Smith & Michael Price from Lo & Behold Interview with David Meltzer Joe Brainard – Joanne Kyger Journal sequence for Joe Brainard – Joanne Kyger Frames – Anne Waldman (1968) Questions for Joanne Kyger – Anne Waldman New Millennium Trip to Patzcuaro – Joanne Kyger (2002) Interview with Tyler Doherty and Tom Morgan DEER CROWN – Michael McClure (2003) Interview with Chris McCreary “School for Flowers” – Joanne Kyger (July 19th 1995) “When I step through the door..” – Joanne Kyger (1986)
