Out walking on a day off, amazingly, I encountered, coming from the other direction,Ī sandalled Gerd, also hiking. The next summer, I workedĪt a kosher summer camp in upstate New York. He, having left home, hadĪnother life and now was somehow living in Greenwich Village which in those days meant beret-Bohemia. While I worked for a year in my father's portrait photography studio, we slightly drifted apart. I recall drawing there from a nude person. Our friendship grew and I discovered myself as the only one at his early graduation from William Howard Taft High School, Startling to me, he, Jack, decided to change his name back to the original German, Gerd. We did many ambitious, passionate, "serious" plays together. He then also became involved with our amateur theater group, called "The Rolling Players," namedĪfter our director, Hubert Rolling. I was aware that he had been successfully involved in a science competition To the prestigious Bronx High School of Science. Later in my drama class at the High School of Music and Art, he emerged for me as a personality but an outsider. Thick glasses and short pants signaled "different." His name then was Jack. To introduce Gerd Stern, my path is to recall my dehydrated memories. Interviewed 1996 by Victoria Morris Byerly, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Introduction by Ivan Majdrakoff, longtime friend and collaborator. Includes sixty poems, with some commentary. entering family cheese import business reflections on art, poetry, counterculture, drugs, and the cheese industry. Maya Angelou marriage to Jane Hill marriage to Ann London writing for Playboy magazine, 1960s living on houseboat in Sausalito USCO (multimedia art) marriage to Sally Shaw Michael Callahan and Intermedia
Gerd Stern, "From Beat Scene Poet to Psychedelic Multimedia Artist in San Francisco and Beyond, 1948-1978," an oral historyĬonducted in 1996 by Victoria Morris Byerly, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California,įrom Beat Scene Poet to Psychedelic Multimedia Artist in San Francisco and Beyond, 1948-1978, 2001, ix, 397 pp.Ĭhildhood and education in New York City discovering poetry moving to California, 1940s writing poetry meeting Allen Ginsberg, It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows:
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