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A.D. Winans Biography,

 

A. D. Winans was born in San Francisco, California on January 12, 1936, as Allan Davis Winans, Junior. He graduated from San Francisco State College (now a University) in 1962, with a BA in Sociology. He served three years in Panama, in the military, and returned home in l959 to become part of the Beat movement flourishing in San Francisco's North Beach District. He enrolled in the post(c)graduate creative writing Program at San Francisco State in 1962, dropping out a few weeks later after a creative writing instructor warned the class not to write in the style of Jack Kerouac, whom the instructor said was not a legitimate writer. Winans became friends with the late Bob Kaufman, Jack Micheline, Charles Bukowski, and other noted poets and writers. In 1970 he was one of 200 out of 2000 applicants chosen for a coveted CETA job with the San Francisco Art Commission, Neighborhood Arts Program, working for 5 years as an editor and writer. His poetry, short stories, articles. book reviews, and essays, have appeared in over 500 literary magazines and anthologies in the U.S., Canada, England, Spain, Japan, Belgium, Sweden, Australia, and New Zealand. He is the author of 22 poetry books, and two prose books, the latest being The Charles Bukowski/Second Coming Years, published by Beat Scene Press.A collection of his "Selected Poems" is being translated into Serbian/Croatian, and will be published in Belgrade sometime in the year 2000.

Winans edited and published Second Coming Magazine and Pressfrom l972 (c) 1989. The press produced 22 books and anthologies, including the landmark California Poets Anthology. He promoted and produced the 1980 Poets and Music Festivala seven day, 3 county, poetry and music festival, honoring the poet Josephine Miles and the blues musician John Lee Hooker. He is listed in several reference directories, including The International Directory of Who's Who in Poetry and A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers. His autobiography was published in the December 1997 Gale Research Directory of Contemporary American Writers Autobiography Series. He is a member of PEN. Winans has read his work with many of the Beat and post(c)Beat writers, including the late Charles Bukowski, Bob Kaufman, and Jack Micheline. In 1983, the Pacific Arts and Letters Foundation presented him with a cash award for his contribution to small press literature. In l984, Studs Terkel read from Winans' The Reagan Psalms, on Terkel's Chicago radio station. Winans has served the literary community in several areas, including five years as a member of the board of directors of COSMEP, founder and initial director of Western Independent Publishers, and as a board member of the South of Market Cultural Center, and the Friends For the Support Services of the Arts. His pet peeve is language school poets like Lynn Hejinian who has said that "Poetry has nothing to do with society." His reply to Hejinian, "Tell that to Browning, Whitman, Brecht, and Neruda."

 

Most of Winans' 22 books are out of print, but a small number of signed (limited) edition copies of the following books areavailable directly from the author:

 

North Beach Poems (hard back with dust jacket). $30

 

The Reagan Psalms (paperback, color photo). $20

 

America (paperback) $5

 

Venus in Pisces (paperback) $5

 

San Francisco Streets (paperback) $5

 

Love Comes in Many Different Flavors

(paperback) $5

 

Looking For an Answer (paperback) $5

 

 

SIGNED SECOND COMING TITLES STILL AVAILABLE

All are paperback unless otherwise noted.

 

Skinny Dynamite by Jack Micheline $25

(signed by the author)

 

Last House in America by Jack Micheline $l0

(signed by the author)

 

Beware of Jackals by Jack Micheline

(signed broadside) $l0

 

California Poet's Anthology (cloth) $25

(signed by Winans)

 

Ten Years in Retrospect with photo of

Charles Bukowski on cover $20

(signed by Winans)

 

Special Charles Bukowski issue of Second

Coming, work and letters by Bukowski

and contributor comments and poems on

and about Bukowski. Signed by Winans. $35

 

Volume 5. No. l. Special issue with work

by Bukowski, Winans, and San Quentin Poet,

Ed. Lipman. Signed by Winans.

(In mint Condition.) $25

 

ORDERING INFORMATION

 

Add $l.95 shipping and handling charges for the first book and

fifty cents for each additional copy ordered.

 

Payment must be made by postal money order or by a certified check drawn upon a bank.

Sorry no checks. Orders will be filled within 48 hours of receipt.

Make payment out to:

A. D. Winans and send to POB 31249, S.F. Ca 94131.