[Rarebooks] Madeline Gleason's outsider art, privatized.

[Serendipity Books]

Madeline Gleason (b. Fargo, ND, 1903) moved to San Francisco with 
flaming red hair; was party to the SF Renaissance, a close 
acquaintance of Ruth Weiss, with whom she read poetry at Wild Side 
West, a North Beach lesbian bar, and a friend to Robert Duncan with 
whom she studied and read in public.  Her COLLECTED POEMS was 
published in 1999. A half dozen collections of verse had preceded, 
beginning with POEMS from the Grabhorn Press (1944). She died "of 
despair, what all poets die of" in 1973, remembers her long time 
partner, Mary Greer, from whom we have 86 oil paintings by 
Madeline.  Each is pictured on the Serendipity site via the "What's 
New" page, for sale as a collection or individually.

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