Harold Norse

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Harold Norse (born July 6, 1916 in Brooklyn , New York City , † June 8, 2009 in San Francisco ) was an American writer and poet who belonged to the literary group of the Beat Generation .

Life

Norse was born in Brooklyn in 1916 as Harold Rosen to an unmarried immigrant from Lithuania ; He formed his new name as an anagram from roses in the early 1950s . Growing up in New York City, Norse lived in Italy from 1954 to 1959 and at the Beat Hotel in Paris from 1960 to 1963 , where William S. Burroughs , Brion Gysin and Allen Ginsberg stayed temporarily. Norse wrote in the Beat Hotel an experimental novel called Beat Hotel , in German translation from 1975 Carl Weissner appeared. During a stay in Florence he read a book about Buddhism . The philosophy had a strong impression on him, which was also expressed in some publications (see Carole Tonkinson, Big Sky Mind ).

In 1969 he returned to the USA . In the book Carnivorous Saint: Gay Poems , published in 1976, Norse wrote gay poems. Writing openly about his homosexual adventures in the 1940s and 1950s, Norse became one of the literary pioneers of the lesbian and gay movement . His life, his literary influences and role models Tennessee Williams , James Baldwin , Lawrence Ferlinghetti , Charles Bukowski and WS Burroughs he described in his autobiography Memories of a Bastard Angel . Norse also announced that William Carlos Williams addressed him in a letter in 1951 as the best poet of his generation .

Harold Norse has been recognized by the National Poetry Association and has received two NEA scholarships .

Works (selection)

  • Karma Circuit , Nothing Doing In London, London 1967, reprint: Panjandrum Press, San Francisco, 1973. (dt. Karma county ) City Lights Press , 2016. Bilingual Wenzendorf, from the American by Ralf Zühlke and with an afterword by Judith Pouget. ISBN 978-3-936271-83-6 .
  • Hotel Nirvana . City Lights, San Francisco 1974. ISBN 0-87286-078-7 .
  • Beat Hotel , MaroVerlag, Augsburg 1975. With collages by Norman Ogue Mustill . Translated by Carl Weissner . ISBN 978-3-87512-229-9 .
  • Carnivorous Saint: Gay Poems 1941-1976 . Gay Sunshine Press, San Francisco 1977. ISBN 0-917342-55-0 .
  • Memoirs of a Bastard Angel , William Morrow and Company, New York 1989. ISBN 0-688-06704-2 .
  • The American Idiom: A Correspondence, met William Carlos Williams . Bright Tyger Press, San Francisco 1990. ISBN 0-944378-79-X .
  • Fly Like a Bat Out of Hell: The Letters of Harold Norse and Charles Bukowski . Thunder's Mouth Press, New York 2002. ISBN 1-56025-349-5 .
  • In the Hub of the Fiery Force , Collected Poems of Harold Norse 1934-2003. Thunder's Mouth Press, New York 2003. ISBN 1-56025-520-X .

literature

  • Carole Tonkinson: Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation. Riverhead Books, New York 1995. ISBN 1-57322-501-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norse, Harold (1916–2009) on www.glbtq.com ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2006 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)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glbtq.com
  2. ↑ Harold Norse, a Beat Poet, Dies at 92 , NYT , June 13, 2009
  3. ↑ Beat Poet was a literary beacon in the gay community Author: Elaine Woo; Los Angeles Times, June 13, 2009. English, accessed August 2, 2009
  4. ↑ Harold Norse: Memoirs of a Bastard Angel , p. 191.
personal data
SURNAME Norse, Harold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Beat Generation lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2009
Place of death San Francisco