{"id":47699,"date":"2021-08-20T12:34:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=47699"},"modified":"2022-02-28T13:07:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T18:07:01","slug":"essays-in-the-works-about-that-bastard-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2021\/08\/essays-in-the-works-about-that-bastard-angel.html","title":{"rendered":"Essays in the Works About That &#8216;Bastard Angel&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The late poet Harold Norse, n\u00e9 Rosen, was a born maverick. His splendid <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Memoirs-Bastard-Angel-Fifty-Year-Literary\/dp\/1560253851\">Memoirs of a Bastard Ange<\/a>l <\/em>is a delicious account of his life and involvement with too many literary legends to name. But what the hell, here goes:    William Carlos Williams <em>and <\/em>W.H. Auden, Tennessee Williams <em>and<\/em> James Baldwin, Robert Graves<em> and<\/em> Paul Bowles, Ana\u00efs Nin <em>and<\/em> Dylan Thomas, William S. Burroughs <em>and<\/em> Charles Bukowski. I&#8217;ll stop there. Now Clemson University Press is planning to bring out a collection of personal and scholarly essays about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hub-Fiery-Force-Collected-1934-2003\/dp\/156025520X\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=harold+norse&amp;qid=1629476972&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1\">his poetry<\/a> and his life, edited by A. Robert Lee and Douglas Field.The front cover of the collection makes use of one of Norse\u2019s watercolor \u201ccosmographs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/norse-cover-560.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"47698\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/norse-cover-560\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/norse-cover-560.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"560,835\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Cover of essay collection about Harold Norse\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/norse-cover-560-201x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/norse-cover-560.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/norse-cover-560.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47698\" width=\"459\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/norse-cover-560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/norse-cover-560-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em> Coming from Clemson University Press.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Postscript: <\/strong>Oct. 3 \u2014 Looks like Feb. 1, 2022 is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk\/books\/id\/55522\/\">publication date<\/a>. <strong>PPS: <\/strong>Now pushed back to March 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late poet Harold Norse, n\u00e9 Rosen, was a born maverick. His splendid Memoirs of a Bastard Angel is a delicious account of his life and involvement with too many literary legends to name. But what the hell, here goes:    William Carlos Williams and W.H. Auden, Tennessee Williams and James Baldwin, Robert Graves and Paul Bowles, Ana\u00efs Nin and Dylan Thomas, William S. Burroughs and Charles Bukowski. I&#8217;ll stop there. Now Clemson University Press is planning to bring out a collection of personal and scholarly essays about his poetry and his life, edited by A. Robert Lee and Douglas Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-books","9":"category-literature","10":"category-main","11":"category-news","12":"category-political-culture","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/norse-cover-560.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-cpl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47699"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50047,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47699\/revisions\/50047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}