Thursday, April 30, 2015

The Poetry of Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan wrote a great many poems during his literary career.  His first book of poetry was The Return of the Rivers, published in 1957, and was a single poem.  The Galilee Hitch-Hiker and Lay the Marble Tea followed in 1958 and 1959 respectively.

Brautigan wrote short pieces in the form of broadsides published by the Communication Company.  In the late 1960s, he wrote twenty-three short pieces for Rolling Stone.  He also recorded his work for an album for the Beatles' Zapple label.  The recording was never released because the Beatles' manager, Allen Klein, terminated the label.  It was released later under the title of Listening to Richard Brautigan on the Harvest Records label.

Cowell Press published seven of Brautigan's broadside poems in book format in 1974 under the title Seven Watermelon Suns, an allusion to the plot of Brautigan's novel In Watermelon Sugar.

Many of Brautigan's poems were never included in his collections of poetry, although many were published individually in various small journals.  Several more were never published but were found among his papers at the time of his death and are curated by Brautigan's estate.

The following collections of poetry were published by novelist, poet, and short story writer Richard Brautigan.

The Return of the Rivers -- 1958

The Galilee Hitch-Hiker -- 1958

Lay the Marble Tea -- 1959

The Octopus Frontier -- 1960

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace -- 1967

Please Plant This Book -- 1968

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster -- 1969

Rommel Drives on Deep into the Desert -- 1970

Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork -- 1971

June 30, June 30 --  1978

Most of the above collections use poems previously printed in various journals.

~William Hammett

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