From beat scene poet to psychedelic multimedia artist in San Francisco and beyond, 1948-1978
By: interviews conducted by Victoria Morris Byerly.
Contributors: Stern, Gerd, 1928- interviewee.; Callahan, Michael, interviewee.; Byerly, Victoria Morris, interviewer.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Publisher: Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Subjects: Stern, Gerd, 1928-; Callahan, Michael,; Brockman, John.; Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-; Majdrakoff, Ivan.; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.; Bohemianism -- California -- San Francisco.; Artists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews.; Art, Modern -- 20th century -- California -- San Francisco.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Topics covered include: born Gerd Jacob Stern in 1928; childhood and education in New York, discovering poetry, moving to California in 1940's, writing poetry, marriage to Jane Hill (known also as Hamner Buck after marriage to Bill Buck), divorced, meeting Allen Ginsburg, Maya Angelou, marriage to Ann London, writing for Playboy magazine in 1960's, living on houseboat in Sausalito, California, USCO (multimedia art) with John Brockman, marriage to Sally Shaw, entering family cheese import business, reflections on art, poetry, counterculture, drugs and the cheese industry, Michael Callahan (electrical engineer) and Intermedia Systems Corporation, Boobam Bamboo Drum Company, Shirley Staschen Triest, Verbal American Landscape, Woodstock Artists' Association.