James Koller
| James Koller | |
|---|---|
| Born | James Anthony Koller Jr. May 30, 1936 Oak Park, Illinois |
| Died | December 10, 2014 Joplin, Missouri |
| Occupation | Poet, novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1954-present |
| Literary movement | Beat Generation, postmodernism |
| Notable works | California Poems, 1971; Poems For The Blue Sky, 1976; The Bone Show, 1999; Like It Was, 2000; Snows Gone By, 2004 |
James Koller (May 30, 1936-December 10, 2014) was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He spent his early life in northern Illinois, and the 1960s on the Pacific Coast. In the early-1970s he moved to Maine, where he lived until his death while traveling across the US. Koller is the author of more than thirty books of poetry. He has also published three novels and numerous essays. His writing has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish, German and Swedish. He began performing his work in the US in 1959, and starting in the late-1970s appeared widely in western Europe, often accompanied by others, notably the late Swiss poet and artist Franco Beltrametti, the German poet Stefan Hyner and the folk musician Governor Clay. He was publisher of Coyote Books and Coyote's Journal since 1964. Many of his Beat, Black Mountain and San Francisco contemporaries (Ed Dorn, Charles Olson, Gary Snyder, Joanne Kyger, Allen Ginsberg) have appeared in these publications.
Koller was also active in the bio-regional and ecological movements. [1]
The son of an engraver, Koller began his involvement in the arts in the 1950s with vocational training in photography. In 1964, while living in Washington state, he became poetry editor of the Northwest Review (the University of Oregon's literary magazine) at Philip Whalen's suggestion, only to see the magazine suspended after publishing an issue featuring Fidel Castro and Antonin Artaud. Soon after, with fellow editors Ed Van Aelstyn and Will Wroth, he founded Coyote's Journal.
Koller's first book, Two Hands, was published in 1965 in Seattle, by James B. Smith. He moved to northern California in that year. His poetry appeared in reviews (The Floating Bear, Locus Solus, The Paris Review, The Rivoli Review), and additional books followed: from Toad Press (Eugene, Oregon), Four Seasons (San Francisco), and Black Sparrow (Los Angeles).
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