Yūgen (magazine)
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 ).