Table of Contents

A note on Joanne Kyger by Robert Creeley

Introduction – Cedar Sigo

Interview with Paul Watsky

from The Japan and India Journals, 1960–1964: March 1962

Two poems from The Tapestry and the Web

Interview with Trevor Carolan

Memories of Kerouac – Joanne Kyger

Letter from Lew Welch (Jan. 9th 1960)

Buzz Time – Joanne Kyger

Buzz photo – Jim Hatch

Two poems from The Tapestry and the Web

Interview with Linda Russo

with photos by Joanne Kyger circa 1958

Letter from Paris (April 19, 1966) – Joanne Kyger & Larry Fagin

Letter from Philip Whalen (1967)

Still from Descartes (film, 1968)

Letter from Charles Olson (1968)

from Descartes and The Splendor Of

Interview with Bobbie Kimball

Cover from Joanne (1970, photo by Bill Berkson)

Letter to Philip Whalen (1969)

from Desecheo Notebook

Interview with Lawrence Nahem

Robert Creeley – Joanne Kyger

Bolinas Hearsay News: Interview with Stephanie Anderson,

covers by Arthur Okamura, Philip Whalen & Donald Guravich

Kent State Arts Festival (1974): broadside and interview

from Trip Out and Fall Back

Gregory Corso – Joanne Kyger

Interview with John Thorpe

“Full of Birds in the First” – Joanne Kyger

Bird Notebooks – Joanne Kyger

Robert Creeley Introduction to Joanne Kyger Reading (1982)

Interview with Dale Smith & Michael Price

from Lo & Behold

Interview with David Meltzer

Joe Brainard – Joanne Kyger

Journal sequence for Joe Brainard – Joanne Kyger

Frames – Anne Waldman (1968)

Questions for Joanne Kyger – Anne Waldman

New Millennium Trip to Patzcuaro – Joanne Kyger (2002)

Interview with Tyler Doherty and Tom Morgan

DEER CROWN – Michael McClure (2003)

Interview with Chris McCreary

“School for Flowers” – Joanne Kyger (July 19th 1995)

“When I step through the door..” – Joanne Kyger (1986)

Promotional Information

With the help of editor Cedar Sigo, we will promote the book heavily through word-of-mouth and review copies to the vibrant poetry communities in and associated with San Francisco and Bolinas, CA, as well as that associated with Naropa University, as well as to poets such as Eileen Myles, Alice Notley, and Etel Adnan who can help promote it.

We will try to support the book with a follow-up interview between Sigo and Kyger, pitching it to the Poetry Foundation, as an entrée into the book and Kyger’s extraordinary life.

We will seek reviews in major literary and general audience publications who cover literary history, such as the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Harper’s, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, as well as to major Bay-area outlets such as the San Francisco Chronicle.

Review copies and pitches will be sent to print and online venues with dedicated poetry coverage, like The Boston Review, The Rumpus, The Volta, Poetry, BOMB,and trades such as Publishers Weekly.

Co-op available

About the Author

One of the major poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, Joanne Kyger was born in 1934 in Vallejo, CA. After studying at UC Santa Barbara, she moved to San Francisco in 1957, where she became a member of the circle of poets centered around Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. In 1960, she joined Gary Snyder in Japan and soon traveled to India where, along with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, they met the Dalai Lama-all experiences she has written extensively about. She returned to California in 1964 and published her first book,The Tapestry and the Web, in 1965. In 1969, she settled on the coast north of San Francisco, where she continues to reside today. She has published over 30 books of poetry and prose, includingThe Japan and India Journals: 1960-1964(2015),On Time: Poems 2005-2014(2015),As Ever: Selected Poems(2002), andAbout Now: Collected Poems(2007), which won the 2008 Josephine Miles Award from PEN Oakland.She has taught at Naropa University, The New College of California, and Mills College. In 2006 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry, including Royals (Wave Books, 2017), Language Arts (Wave Books, 2014), Stranger in Town (City Lights, 2010), Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008), and two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003 and 2005). He has taught workshops at St. Mary's College, Naropa University, and University Press Books. He lives in San Francisco.