[14], ix, [1], 397, [3] leaves, 25 leaves of plates, bound : 28 cm

Topics covered include: born Gerd Jacob Stern in 1928; childhood and education in New York, discovering poetry, moving to California in 1940's, writing poetry, marriage to Jane Hill (known also as Hamner Buck after marriage to Bill Buck), divorced, meeting Allen Ginsburg, Maya Angelou, marriage to Ann London, writing for Playboy magazine in 1960's, living on houseboat in Sausalito, California, USCO (multimedia art) with John Brockman, marriage to Sally Shaw, entering family cheese import business, reflections on art, poetry, counterculture, drugs and the cheese industry, Michael Callahan (electrical engineer) and Intermedia Systems Corporation, Boobam Bamboo Drum Company, Shirley Staschen Triest, Verbal American Landscape, Woodstock Artists' Association

Volume includes index

The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Artist and poet

Transcript of an interview completed under the auspices of the Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley

Includes interview (Chapter X) with Michael Callahan, Technical Director, Carpenter Arts Center, Harvard University

Includes sixty poems, with some commentary

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