Title

Ted Joans collection, 1928-2003.

Author

Joans, Ted.

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Description

.8 lin. ft. (2 archival boxes)

Subjects

• African American poets
• American poetry > 20th century
• Haynes, Jim
• Joans, Ted > Correspondence
• Shore, Hy
• Beats (Persons) > New York (State) > New York
• African American authors
• Poetry, Modern > 20th century

Note

• Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.

Source (note)

• Estate of Hy Shore

Biography (note)

• Ted Joans was a painter, poet, trumpeter, and member of the New York Greenwich Village literary Beat Generation. He was among the first poets to set his poems to jazz music. His style is associated with the oral tradition of African American writing and the Beat Generation. Joans, a self identified surrealist, was the author of over 30 books.

Processing Action (note)

• Accessioned
• Cataloged

Call Number

Sc MG 716

Author

Joans, Ted.

Title

Ted Joans collection, 1928-2003.

Summary

The Ted Joans collection consists mainly of correspondence and notes (1969-2003). The bulk of the material is between Hy Shore, Joans's attorney, agent and friend, with a folder of material on Jim Haynes, a client and friend of Hy Shore and a key social figure in the expatriate community in Paris. Also included is the typescript for "The Hipsters" (1961), poems, sketches, and cartoon style drawings (mostly on envelopes).

Biography

Ted Joans was a painter, poet, trumpeter, and member of the New York Greenwich Village literary Beat Generation. He was among the first poets to set his poems to jazz music. His style is associated with the oral tradition of African American writing and the Beat Generation. Joans, a self identified surrealist, was the author of over 30 books. Joans was born in 1928, Cairo, Ill., and died at the age of 74 in Vancouver.

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Research Call Number

Sc MG 716