Helen Adam (1909–1993)
Auteur de A Helen Adam Reader
A propos de l'auteur
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Séries
Œuvres de Helen Adam
The Queen of Crow Castle 2 exemplaires
Grinsende Schatten: Zwei Hexengeschichten 1 exemplaire
Turn Again To Me and Other Poems 1 exemplaire
Turn Again To Me & Other Poems 1 exemplaire
Shadow of the moon 1 exemplaire
Dog Star Run 1 exemplaire
Dirge for a Dazzling Star 1 exemplaire
Summer 1981 1 exemplaire
Third Eye Shining 1 exemplaire
The Last Secret 1 exemplaire
Daughter of Roses {poem} 1 exemplaire
Last Words of Her Lover 1 exemplaire
Margaretta's Rime 1 exemplaire
V.I.P. Australian Travelling Directory 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Contributeur — 406 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1909-12-02
- Date de décès
- 1993-09-19
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Scotland (birth)
UK
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Études
- University of Edinburgh
- Professions
- poet
photographer
journalist
artist
actor - Relations
- Allen Ginsberg (colleague)
Robert Duncan (colleague) - Courte biographie
- Helen Adam was born in Scotland, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister. She began writing poetry at a very young age. When she was 14, her early poems were compiled and published in her first book, The Elfin Pedlar (1923). After attending the University of Edinburgh, she worked as a journalist in London. In 1939, she visited the USA with her mother and sister, but the outbreak of World War II meant that their residency became permanent. She lived in New York City before settling in San Francisco, California, where she joined a circle of influential poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Madeline Gleason, and Jack Spicer. Their San Francisco Renaissance movement was a contemporary of the Beats. Besides poetry, she also produced collages and wrote a successful opera, San Francisco's Burning (1963). She was one of only four women whose work was included in Donald Allen's landmark anthology, The New American Poetry 1945-1960 (1960). She collaborating on two films with experimental German filmmaker Rosa Von Praunheim.
In her later years, she faded into obscurity but there is now renewed interest in her work thanks to literary scholars and biographers, particularly Kristin Prevallet.
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