Charles Plymell

Charles Plymell ( born April 26, 1935 in Holcomb, Kansas ) is an American author, publisher, editor. He belonged to the literary " Beat Generation ".

Life

Plymell grew up in the time of the Great Depression in Kansas on a farm. He attended the Military Academy in San Antonio, but came back to Wichita and spent his time in his own words in cars on the "Highway 66 " (called Benzedrine Highway), with jazz, hipsters and Hustlern. On the other hand, he began in 1955 to study philosophy, art and English at Wichita State University. He worked as a printer. Plymell Vortex is counted with the poet Michael McClure and artist Bruce Conner to Kansas Boheme of Wichita.

Plymell learned in 1962 Neal Cassady know, he felt connected to. Cassidy, with his girlfriend and Allen Ginsberg lived for a time in the same house as Plymell. Plymell worked in various jobs, including as a union ( Teamsters ) organized dockworkers.

1967 Plymell printed the first issue of Zap Comix by Robert Crumb and (later) S. Clay Wilson. His first novel, published in 1971 under the title The Last of the Moccasins, tells the wild and short life of his sister. Although Plymell reveals social criticism in his works, he sees the age of apostasy as a time of historic change, not of doom.

Plymell went in 1970 after Maryland and earned his master's degree (MA ) in an open letter ( Creative Writing ) at Elliot Coleman at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, but suggested a university place and rather moved to the Bowery. In 1974 he founded, his wife Pamela (Mary Beaches daughter) and Josh Norton, Cherry Valley Editions, where he own books, but in addition to many lesser-known authors Allen Ginsburg ( Poems All Over the Place ), Herbert Huncke, Ray Bremser ( Blowing Mouth. the Jazz Poems 1958-1970), William S. Burroughs ( Tornado Alley. Cobblestone Gardens ) and the surrealist Charles Henri Ford published ..

In the 6th International Tyrolean Literary Festival in Hall in Tirol from 12 to September 14, 2008 Plymell was invited as a guest, where he made ​​his book What Poe Afraid recited some of his poems and extracts.

Plymell now lives in Cherry Valley, New York.

Works

  • Apocalypse Rose, Dave Haselwood Books, San Francisco, CA, 1967.
  • Neon Poems, Atom Mind Publications, Syracuse, NY, 1970.
  • The Last of the Moccasins, City Lights Books, San Francisco 1971
  • Over the Stage of Kansas, Telephone Books, NYC, 1973.
  • The Trashing of America, Kulchur Foundation, NYC, 1975.
  • Forever Wider, 1954-1984, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ, 1985.
  • What Poe Afraid? , Bogg Publications, Arlington, VA, 1990.
  • Hand on the Doorknob, Water Row Books, Sudbury, MA, 2000

German -language editions

  • MIND EATER - Old Country. Translated by Gregory Pott. Publisher Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2009. ISBN 978-3-941126-01-5
  • Love Songs - Psalms in times of apostasy. Publisher Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2000. ISBN 3-929375-24-9
  • Panic in Dodge City. Translated by Carl Weissner. Expanded Media Editions, Bonn 1981. ISBN 3-88030-020-8
  • Moccasins - Beat kaleidoscope. Europe Publishing. Vienna, Munich, Zurich 1980. ISBN 3-203-50728-5

Anthologies and magazines

  • Charles Plymell: Mushrooms or Playboy is here. In: Renate Matthaei (eds): March 1 & texts trivial myths. Area, Erftstadt 2004 ( translated by Peter Faulhammer ), ISBN 3-89996-029-7, pp. 15-21.
  • Jürgen Ploog, Pociao, Walter Hartmann ( ed.): Amok Koma. Expanded Media Editions, Bonn 1980.
  • Carl Weissner, Charles Bukowski ( Eds.): turpentine on the Rocks. Maro Verlag, Augsburg 1978.
  • Udo Breger (eds.): Soft Need. No. 9, Expanded Media Editions, Bonn / Gothenburg 1976.
  • Udo Breger et al ( eds ): Cut Up ( = AQ No. 14. ). AQ -Verlag, Dudweiler 1973.
Hipster (1940s subculture) Bohemianism Integrated Authority File
178807
de