From Beat scene poet to psychedelic multimedia artist in San Francisco and beyond, 1948-1978 : oral history transcript / 2001
Gerd Stern (Interviewee), Victoria Morris Byerly (Interviewer), Bancroft Library Regional Oral History Office
Childhood and education in New York City; discovering poetry; moving to California, 1940s; writing poetry; meeting Allen Ginsberg, Maya Angelou; marriage to Jane Hill; marriage to Ann London; writing for Playboy magazine, 1960s; living on houseboat in Sausalito; USCO (mulitmedia art); marriage to Sally Shaw; Michael Callahan and Intermedia Systems Corp.; entering family cheese import business; reflections on art, poetry, counterculture, drugs, and the cheese industry. Includes sixty poems, with some commentary
Manuscript, English, 2001