John Wieners

John Wieners ( born January 6, 1934 in Milton, Massachusetts, † March 1, 2002 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American lyricist. His poetry uses themes of the beats and the drug addicts.

Life

Wieners grew up in Massachusetts, he attended elementary school in Dorchester St. Gregory and the Boston College High School. He studied from 1950 to 1954 at Boston College, with a bachelor's degree (AB). He met Charles Olson know, went to Black Mountain College and studied 1955/56, with Charles Olson and Robert Duncan. He then worked as an actor and director at The Poet's Theatre in Cambridge and was a literary magazine, Measure, out, brought it on three issues.

Wieners moved in 1958 to San Francisco and attended the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance. His first book of poetry The Hotel Wentley Poems appeared in 1958 and made him known. Wieners 1960 returned to Boston back. He was admitted to a clinic in 1961 he went to New York City, where he worked at Eighth Street Books (1962 /63) and with the petty criminals William S. Burroughs, Herbert Huncke friend lived on the Lower East Side. In 1963 he moved back to Boston, where he worked for the department store Jordan Marsh. His second book, Ace of Pentacles, appeared in 1964. 1965 he took part in the Spoleto Festival and Olson at the Berkeley Poetry Conference and enrolled for postgraduate studies at New York State University at Buffalo.

Wieners was Olson's assistant and then a lecturer until 1967 mews for poetics. This collection of poems Pressed Wafer appeared. In the spring of 1969, Wiener's was admitted again, his Asylum Poems published in the same year.

In the early 1970s Wieners became politically active, pacifist and in the homosexual movement He moved into an apartment on Beacon Hill, in the Joy Street 44, where he lived until his death.

Appeared in 1975, the comprehensive book Behind the State Capitol or Cincinnati Pike, from prose collages, poems and aphorisms. In the next ten years he published very little. Wieners retired from public life. Appeared in 1986 an extensive collection of his poems at Black Sparrow Press, 1988, the band Cultural Affairs in Boston, eight years later an old diary under the title The Journal of John Wieners is to be called 707 Scott Street for Billie Holliday 1959, which in his life San Francisco has held in the late 1950s.

Took place in 1999 one of the last reading Wieners, with Michael McClure occasion of the exhibition of the famous Italian neo- expressionisischen painter Francesco Clemente at the Guggenheim Museum.

Wieners died on 11 March 2002 in a Boston hospital, he was a few days earlier collapsed after a visit to his publisher and friend Charley Shively. The poem and diary collection Kidnap Notes Next appeared posthumously. A Book of Prophecies, published in 2007, was once an old diary Wieners, the poet Michel Carr had discovered in the archives of Kent State University. The manuscript of 1971 began with the poem in 2007.

The Boston Globe and British Independent published obituaries.