Charles Plymell

Charles Plymell (2017)

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 on a farm in Kansas during the Great Depression . He attended the military academy in San Antonio , but came back to Wichita and, according to his own admission , spent his time in cars on "Highway 66" (called: Benzedrine Highway ), with jazz, hipsters and hustlers . On the other hand, in 1955 he began studying philosophy, art, and English at Wichita State University . He worked as a printer . Plymell is counted with the poet Michael McClure and artist Bruce Conner to the Kansas bohemian of the Wichita Vortex .

Allen Ginsberg (left) with friend Peter Orlowski

Plymell met Neal Cassady in 1962 , to whom he felt connected. Cassidy, his girlfriend and Allen Ginsberg lived in the same house as Plymell for a while. Plymell worked in a variety of jobs, including as a unionized ( Teamsters ) organized dock worker.

In 1967, Plymell printed the first issue of the 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 shows criticism of civilization in his works, he sees the age of apostasy as a time of historical change, not of decline.

Plymell went in 1970 after Maryland and earned his master's degree (MA) in an open letter ( Creative Writing ) at Elliot Coleman at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , but turned down a university place and moved rather in the Bowery . In 1974 he, his wife Pamela (Mary Beaches daughter) and Josh Norton founded the Cherry Valley Editions , where he wrote his own books, but in addition to many lesser-known authors also Allen Ginsberg ( 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 .

At the 6th International Tyrolean Literature Days in Hall in Tirol from September 12th to 14th, 2008, Plymell was invited as a guest, where he read some of his poems and excerpts from his book Was Poe Afraid .

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.
• Blue Orchid Numero Uno , Telephone Books, 1977.
• Forever Wider , 1954-1984, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ, 1985.
• What is Poe Afraid ?, Bogg Publications, Arlington, VA, 1990.
• Hand on the Doorknob , Water Row Books, Sudbury, MA, 2000
• Some Mothers' Sons , Cherry Valley Editions, Cherry Valley, NY, 2004
• Eat Not Thy Mind , Eye Books Ecstatic Peace Library, Florance, MA, 2010
• Found & Lost Magascene , Vol. 1 / No. 0 & 1 [Contributor], Back Room / Temple of Man, 2010
• Tent Shaker Vortex Voice , Bottle of Smoke Press , 2012
• Incognito, Ergo Sum , Ragged Lion Press , 2016
• Charles Plymell / Bill Nace: Rose de l'Apocalypse / Apocalypse Rose , Éditions Lenka lente , Nantes, 2016
• Camposque Virentis , Cherry Valley Editions, NY, 2017
• Cowboy of the Ancient Sea , Bottle of Smoke Press, NY, 2016

German-language editions

• Smoke signals . Translated by Egon Günther. Verlag Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2018. ISBN 978-3-946685-12-8
• Apocalypsenrosis . Translated by Egon Günther. Verlag Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2016. ISBN 978-3-941126-89-3
• Cat Man Thu . Translated by Egon Günther. Verlag Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2016. ISBN 978-3-941126-85-5
• Planet Chernobyl . Translated by Gregor Pott. Verlag Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2015. ISBN 978-3-941126-76-3
• Animal Light - Poems and Collages . Translated by Gregor Pott. Verlag Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2012. ISBN 978-3-941126-31-2
• MINDEATER - Old Land . Translated by Gregor Pott. Verlag Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2009. ISBN 978-3-941126-01-5
• Chants of love - psalms in the times of apostasy . Verlag 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 . European publishing house. Vienna, Munich, Zurich 1980. ISBN 3-203-50728-5

Anthologies and magazines

• Charles Plymell: Two Albanys-A Prophecy / Two Albanys-A Prophecy . In: The paramedic. No. 13. Verlag Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2017, ISBN 978-3-941126-88-6
• Charles Plymell: Mushrooms or Playboy is here . In: Renate Matthaei (Ed.): March -Texte 1 & Trivialmythen . Area, Erftstadt 2004, ISBN 3-89996-029-7 , p. 15-21 .
• Florian Vetsch (ed.): The paramedic . No. 9 . Verlag Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2002, ISBN 3-929375-31-1 .
• Jürgen Ploog , Pociao , Walter Hartmann (Ed.): Amok Koma . Expanded Media Editions, Bonn 1980.
• Carl Weissner, Charles Bukowski (ed.): Turpentine on the Rocks . Maro Verlag , Augsburg 1978.
• Udo Breger (Ed.): Soft Need . No. 9 . Expanded Media Editions, Bonn / Gothenburg 1976.
• Udo Breger et al. (Ed.): Cut Up (=  AQ . No. 14 ). AQ-Verlag , Dudweiler 1973.

Web links

• Guide to Charles Plymell Collection Wichita University Libraries. With a short biography.
• Beats in Kansas Plymell left.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Plymells himself particularly appreciates WS Burroughs Catfish McDaris Interview , Grist On-line, 1996 .
2. ↑ Interview with Ch. Plymell by Paul Hawkins ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Benzedrine Highway ; English. Retrieved May 23, 2009 
3. ↑ Interview by Jon Randall ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; English. Retrieved May 23, 2009 
4. ↑ See: The Papers of the Writing Seminar at the Johns Hopkins ( Memento of the original of June 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
5. ↑ The Rusty Truck Interview .
6. ↑ Cherry Valley Editions ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ (PDF 45 kB); Article by Günther Egon about Ch. Plymell's reading in Tyrol. Retrieved May 23, 2009