Snyder on the West Coast scene of the fifties
FEB 20 2018
Gary Snyder, who closed the 6 Gallery bill with A Berry Feast, recalls the West Coast Beat scene of the 1950s for the New Mexico History Museum. He opens with the question the reading came out of: since none of them could get published, why not give a poetry reading.
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