Harold Norse
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Harold Norse (born July 6, 1916 in New York City) is a American poet, two-time NEA grant recipient, and National Poetry Association award winner. He became a part of W.H. Auden's "inner circle" at the age of 22.
He penned the novel Beat Hotel while living in Paris with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. He has lived in the Mission District of San Francisco for the last 35 years.
With Carnivorous Saint: Gay Poems 1941-1976 (Gay Sunshine Press 1977), Norse is said to have become a leading gay liberation poet. His Memoirs of a Bastard Angel (William Morrow, 1989), preface by James Baldwin, further established his reputation. The book describes his relationships with many notable literary figures, including W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, E. E. Cummings, Tennessee Williams, William Carlos Williams, James Baldwin, Dylan Thomas, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, Robert Graves, and Anais Nin.
[edit] Anthologies
- New Directions 13, ed. James Laughlin, 1951
- New World Writing 13, ed. Reed Whittemore
- Mentor, New American Library, 1958
- City Lights Journal, ed. L. Ferlinghetti, #1, 1963
- #4 1978
- Best Poems of 1968: Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards, ed. Hildegarde Flanner, 1969
- Poems from Italy, translations, ed. William Jay Smith, Crowell, 1972
- City Lights Anthology, ed. Ferlinghetti, City Lights 1974
- A Geography of Poets, ed. Edward Field, Bantam 1979
- The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse, ed. Stephen Coote, Penguin 1983
- An Ear to the Ground, ed. Harris & Aguero, University of Chicago Press, 1989
- Big Sky Mind: Buddhism & the Beat Generation, ed. Carole Tonkinson, Riverhead Books, NY, 1995
- City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology, City Lights, 1995
- Mondadori (in Italian), 1997.
