Publisher's Synopsis
"Neeli Cherkovski grew up in Southern California where he co-edited the 1972 "Anthology of Los Angeles Poets" with Charles Bukowski and Paul Vangelisti. He moved to San Francisco in 1974 where he was associated with Jack Hirschman, David Meltzer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, and other "New York/San Francisco transplants. His essay collection "Whitman's Wild Children, originally published in 1989, with expanded subsequent reissues, provides intimate portraits of many of these contemporaries. In 2019 he co-edited "The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman", another close friend. Cherkovski's poems have been translated into Italian, German, Spanish, Turkish, and French. His most recent poetry collections are "Elegy for my Beat Generation " and "Hang onto the Yangtze River." (Lithic Press, Fruita Colorado) His "Ear of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 1959-2021 , is also forthcoming from Lithic Press"--.
