Charles Plymell (also known as Charlie Plymell) is originally from Belle Plain Kansas. He is often overlooked for his involvement as a Beat writer and poet.
In 1935, Charley Plymell's father took his family to Holcomb, Kansas, where Charley was born "in a converted chicken shed built to protect us from the black dust storms that had long covered the once thriving stage line a few miles away. My mother had to put wet rags over our faces so we coul...
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Charles Plymell (also known as Charlie Plymell) is originally from Belle Plain Kansas. He is often overlooked for his involvement as a Beat writer and poet.
In 1935, Charley Plymell's father took his family to Holcomb, Kansas, where Charley was born "in a converted chicken shed built to protect us from the black dust storms that had long covered the once thriving stage line a few miles away. My mother had to put wet rags over our faces so we could breath. When she wasn't busy with us, she was gathering cactus and shooting jackrabbits ("Hoover steaks") to feed us. In my poetry, I speak of the madness that this desperation could, in frailer women evoke, and of seeing in a Washington, D.C., gourmet market a half-century later the kind of cactus she had gathered." (from "Kansa, Land of the Wind People")
He was involved in the Beat scene in New York in the 1950s before moving to San Francisco in the 1960s where he shared a house with Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady on Gough Street in 1963....
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