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.According to Ray Man- Beat Hotel in 1960 at the suggestion of Burroughs.zarek, Jim has that same kind of aura about him Once there, he began a cut-up novel in the style ofthat the Beats had. McClure states, I know of no Burroughs and Brion Gyson, which was later com-better poet of Jim s generation. piled and published as The BEAT HOTEL (1983).Norse left the Beat Hotel in 1963 and beganBibliography to receive critical attention by middecade.He con-Davis, Stephen.Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend.New tinued to publish poems in journals such as the Ev-York: Gotham Books, 2004.ergreen Review, a literary review that also publishedManzarek, Ray.Light My Fire: My Life with The Doors.much Beat poetry as well as the likes of SamuelNew York: G.P.Putnam s Sons, 1998.Beckett and Octavio Paz, and in 1966 an entireMcClure, Michael.Afterword.No One Here Gets Out issue of the avant-garde journal Ole was devoted toAlive, by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman.New his work.York: Warner Books, 1981.By 1969 Norse had settled in San Francisco, . Nile Insect Eyes: Talking on Jim Morrison. In- becoming a key member of the San Francisco liter-terview with Frank Lisciandro.Lighting the Corners: ary movement as well as the 1970s gay-liberationOn Art, Nature, and the Visionary Essays and Inter- movement.In 1974 Beat poet LAWRENCE FER-views, by Michael McClure.Albuquerque: Univer- LINGHETTI s City Lights Pocket Poets series (thesity of New Mexico College of Arts and Sciences, same series in which Ginsberg s HOWL AND OTHER1993.POEMS first appeared) published Norse s Hotel Nir-vana: Selected Poems, 1953 1973, which was nomi-Kurt Hemmer nated for the 1974 National Book Award.Threeyears later, his book Carnivorous Saint: Gay Poems1941 1976 was published, maintaining the thenNorse, Harold (1916 ) 61-year-old poet s place in 20th-century counter-An important avant-garde poet, translator, and culture.memoirist, Harold Norse first became connected In 1989 his Memoirs of a Bastard Angel wasto the Beat movement while living in the Beat published (James Baldwin wrote the preface), at-Hotel in Paris in the early 1960s.Having already tempting to break down myths and legends aboutbecome a member of W.H.Auden s inner circle the famous and admired.In it Norse, who was al-through a mutual lover, Norse had also established ways surrounded by the mythologized, documentsa relationship with William Carlos Williams by the encounters with the Beats, as well as with Auden, Nova Express 235Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Marlon Brando, signs that the Nova Police are moving in.Much ofEzra Pound, Anaïs Nin, Jackson Pollock, Dylan this action has been described in the two previousThomas, Robert De Niro, PAUL BOWLES, CHARLES books, but a new character is introduced as theBUKOWSKI, and numerous others.This memoir fits planet s savior, The Mayan God of Pain and Fear.Norse s style in its frankness and tone, but it also From his seat of power on the surface of Venus,does so thematically as Norse had always strived he shuts down the con game that is played by theto create a poetry not of novelty and myth but of board members.lived experience, finding the extraordinary in the In the section So Pack Your Ermines, Bur-deeply genuine.roughs raises environmental themes in this bookNorse received a lifetime achievement award that look forward to the environmental move-from the National Poetry Association in 1991 and ment of the 1970s: The Board s Green Deal (acontinues to live and work in San Francisco.metaphor for the destruction of the environmentby profit-minded global corporations) involvesBibliography sucking the oxygen out of the Earth s atmosphereNorse, Harold.Memoirs of a Bastard Angel: A Fifty-Year to create a carbon-dioxide atmosphere that canLiterary and Erotic Odyssey.New York: Thunder s be breathed by the Vegetable People, who haveMouth Press, 1989.formed an alliance with the Insect People of Min-raud.When the carbon dioxide runs thin, theChuck Carlise effects are similar to those of withdrawal from her-oin, and Burroughs brings in his old drug partner,Phil White (the Sailor), and creates a variationNova Express William S.Burroughs (1964) on their days working the hole (the subway) inThis third book in WILLIAM S.BURROUGHS s cut-up 1946 (described in JUNKY).KiKi, based on Bur-trilogy of science fiction was written in the 1960s.roughs s boy companion Kiki in Tangier, narratesIn the first section, Last Words, the last a scene as he did in The Ticket That Exploded.Hewords are ascribed by Burroughs to Hassan i Sab- tells Meester William that his theories on writingbah, the eighth-century leader of a group of assas- are loco. The many references to bread knivessins who targeted fundamentalist religious leaders.refer to the fact that the real-life Kiki was stabbedBurroughs extends Hassan i Sabbah s opposition to to death with a bread knife.Another boy narratesreligious fundamentalism to an opposition to corpo- a scene from Burroughs s yage expedition to Southrations, monopolies, and syndicates that dominate America where the Meester locates a Brujo andthe globe at the expense of individuals.A letter pays him to prepare ayahuasca (a hallucinogenicfrom Inspector J.Lee of the Nova Police explains potion containing DMT)
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