Donald Allen
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Donald Merriam Allen (
Early life
Allen began his working life as a Japanese translator within the US military, serving during WWII.[2]
Career
After his service ended, Allen became an editor at
Along with editing works by
In 1960, Allen moved from New York to San Francisco, where he established Grey Fox Press and the Four Seasons Foundation, two literary presses where he continued to publish works from Beat, San Francisco Renaissance, Black Mountain, and New York School writers. As the
Also in 1960, Allen edited the anthology The New American Poetry. In that book, released through Grey Fox Press, Allen included "Statements of Poetics," which was an experimental aesthetics discussion from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Whalen, Snyder, Michael McClure, Jones, John Wieners, along with Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.[5]
While working with the Four Seasons Foundation, Allen also assisted in the publication of (among others): Interviews (1980) by
Grey Fox Press
Grey Fox Press and Four Seasons Foundation were among the many emerging presses that City Lights distributed in the late 1960s, and when Don Allen began thinking about retirement, City Lights offered to acquire the backlists. Today, City Lights publishes the significant works from these presses in their City Lights/Grey Fox series.[6]
The Donald Allen Collection, processed in 1991 for a special collection series at the
References
- ^ Wolfgang Saxon (9 September 2004). "Donald Allen, 92, Book Editor of Bold New Voices in Poetry, Dies". The New York Times. p. A 31. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ a b c "Register of Donald Allen Collection - MSS 3". libraries.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
- ^ Perloff, Marjorie. "Whose New American Poetry?: Anthologizing in the Nineties". epc.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
- ISBN 9780802118615.
- ^ "Full text of "Encyclopedia Of Beat Literature"". archive.org.
- ^ "City Lights Books : City Lights/Grey Fox". www.citylights.com. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
- ^ "Register of Donald Allen Collection - MSS 0003". library.ucsd.edu.
External links
- Great Anthology: The New American Poetry: 1945-1960 article at "The Academy of American Poets" website
- Whose New American Poetry? article by Marjorie Perloff
- Tribute to Donald M. Allen at Empty Mirror Books website
- Jacket Magazine tribute by Kevin Killian
- Extensive Interview with Donald Allen
- Donald Allen Collection MSS 3. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.