Memoirs Of A Bastard Angel: A Fifty-Year Literary and Erotic Odyssey. by Harold Norse - 1989.

New York, NY William Morrow & Company, 1989. Hardcover First Edition (1989), so stated. First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. First Edition (1989), so stated. First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: The Book shows a touch of shelf soiling to the heel of the backstrip, whcih shows just a touch of crimping as well; the soiling affects the bottom edge of the green quarter cloth; else flawless; the binding square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing minor, unobtrusive flaws only. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Very close to 'As New'. The DJ shows the very mildest wear to the extremities; else flawless; the price is unclipped; mylar-protected. Very close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9.5 x 6.5 x 1.35 inches). 364 pages. Preface, Prologue, Index, Illustrated with two sections of black & white photographs. Language: English. Weight: 27.7 ounces. Hardback with DJ. Harold Norse (1916 – 2009) was an American writer who created a body of work using the American idiom of everyday language and images. Norse was one of the expatriate artists of the Beat generation. Norse became allied with William Carlos Williams, who rated Norse the 'best poet of [his] generation.' Norse broke with traditional verse forms and embraced a more direct, conversational language. Soon Norse was publishing in Poetry, The Saturday Review and The Paris Review. He got his master's degree in literature from New York University in 1951. His first book of poems, The Undersea Mountain, was published in 1953. Memoirs of a Bastard Angel traces Norse's life and literary career with Auden, Christopher Isherwood, E. E. Cummings, Tennessee Williams, William Carlos Williams, James Baldwin, Dylan Thomas, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Paul Bowles, Charles Bukowski, Robert Graves and Anaïs Nin. With Carnivorous Saint: Gay Poems 1941–1976 Norse became a leading gay liberation poet.