Elise Cowen

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Elise Cowen Nada (* 1933 in Long Iceland , New York ; † 1. February 1962 in Washington Heights ) was an US -American poet of the Beat Generation .

Life

Elise Cowen was the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family. She began to write poetry in her school days . At Barnard College she met Joyce Johnson (then Glassmann). She got to know Allen Ginsberg through her philosophy professor . They found they had a mutual acquaintance from psychiatry : Carl Solomon ; to which Ginsberg dedicated his poem Howl . Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky shared an apartment with Elise and her friend Sheila.

Cowen put an end to her life in 1962 by jumping through a closed window in her parents' house. After her death, her parents destroyed most of her poems; however, some were owned by Leo Skir , who took care of their publication.

plant

  • Sustain Me in Despair , poems (English), Søren Jensens Lille Press (Denmark), 2013
  • Made of death & water. Poems and Fragments , edited by Tony Trigilio, translated from the American by Caroline Hartge, Stadtlichter Presse, Wenzendorf 2018, ISBN 978-3-936271-92-8

literature

  • Caroline Hartge: Open the windows and Shalom. An attempt on Elise Cowen . Stadtlichter-Presse, Wenzendorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-936271-51-5 (Heartbeat Special; 1).
  • Caroline Hartge: Reeds & Requiem for Elise Cowen . Engstler Verlag, Ostheim / Rhön 2005, ISBN 3-929375-64-8 .
  • Regina Marler (Ed.): Queer Beats. How the Beats turned America on to sex . Cleis Press, San Francisco 2004, ISBN 1-57344-188-0 .
  • Richard Peabody: A different beat. Writings by women of the Beat Generation . Serpent's Tail Books, London 1997, ISBN 1-85242-431-1 .
  • Leo Skir: Elise Cowen: A quick reminder of the fifties . Stadtlichter Presse, Wenzendorf 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ REX, website of the Royal Library of Copenhagen, accessed July 25, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Cowen, Elise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cowen, Elise Nada (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet of the Beat Generation
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Island , New York
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1962
Place of death Washington Heights