Memoirs of a Bastard Angel

Rating:
Summary: From the Back Cover
Review: Harold Norse is the author of 12 volumes of poetry and a novel, Beat Hotel. His selected poems, Hotel Nirvana, was a National Book Award nominee in 1974. His numerous grants include one from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in San Francisco. Of his writing, Christopher Street said: "Norse's work is one of the foundations of a post-World War II tradition that includes the prose art of John Rechy and Jean Genet." Anis Nin wrote "I enjoyed the Memoirs tremendously... So well written so honest.. The Memoirs are a live and powerful". Of his latest volume, Love Poems, Booklist wrote: "A major work of gay literature". Library Journal concurred "An elder statesman of homoerotic verse, making this volume an important addition to poetry collections". And James Baldwin wrote: "If light ever enters the hearts of men, Harold Norse will be one of those who have helped to set it there.