Yūgen (magazine)

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Yūgen , after the Japanese aesthetic term of the same name , is a magazine for poetry and “for a new consciousness in literature and the arts”. It was published from 1958 to 1962 in New York by Troubadour Press . It was edited and published by LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka) and Hettie Jones , his first wife. There were eight editions.

The poets of the Beat Generation , Allen Ginsberg , William S. Burroughs , Gregory Corso , Gary Snyder , Philip Whalen , were strongly represented in number six had Jack Kerouac Rimbaud Premiere, but the LeRoi Jonses also released Frank O'Hara , Kenneth Koch ( New York School ), important works by Charles Olson , as well as Robert Creeley , Joel Oppenheimer, Fielding Dawson ( Black Mountain College ) and Robin Blaser ( San Francisco Renaissance ).

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  1. The first number had the name and number of the magazine, plus a misshapen looking character, above a portrait and below it the motto a new consciousness in arts and letters on the cover
  2. Jed Birmingham: Yugen , Reality Studio (blog), April 30, 2006.