Blanche and James Cooney met in the 1930s in Greenwich Village. She was seventeen, an art student, a Russian-Romanian first-generation Jewish New Yorker bound for radical freedom. He was twenty-seven, an Irish-American writer, a lapsed Catholic expelled from the Communist Party for anarchist "tendencies." Disparate pair, imperative union. They married and left New York forever; left her outraged parents, his distraught lover, for frontier life in rural America with no money and limitless hope. The goal: a community of self-sufficient artists. The rallying point: The Phoenix, a literary quarterly, international, eclectic. The threat addressed: totalitarianism, technology, the crushing of the individual. In spite of their isolation the cast is rich: Frieda Lawrence, Henry Miller, Anais Nin. Lepke, Czar of the underworld; a constant stream of European expatriates; artists and rebels and poets of all ages and persuasions. For fifty years they lived together, farming, raising their four children; close to the heart of things. Though never achieved, their vision of community remained alive.
Blanche Cooney tells stories from her life of exploration.
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Vendeur : Andrew James Books, Cardiff, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing with unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears. Owners name in pencil to half title otherwise clean. "In 1936, over the objections of her Jewish parents, 18-year-old Blanche Rosenthal married a 27-year-old penniless radical writer of Irish descent named Joe Cooney. In simple yet eloquent prose, she tells the story of her Bronx childhood, of her Greenwich Village romance and of her marriage that spanned 49 years (Joe died in 1985) and produced four children. The Cooneys wandered, living in, among other places, Woodstock, N.Y., where they first published the Phoenix , a literary periodical that printed the work of such banned writers as Henry Miller and Anais Nin and espoused revolutionary and pacifist causes. Chasing Joe's dream of a visionary farming community, the family endured harsh rural poverty and lived without running water or electricity. Frank about the drawbacks of life with a husband who was often selfish and dictatorial, the author also affectingly evokes their consuming love for each other." Overseas buyers please note additional postal charges may apply. N° de réf. du vendeur 002305
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Vendeur : Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press / Ohio University Press, 1993. First edition, first printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Quarter forest green cloth over marbled beige paper-covered boards, with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 246 pages, pictorial endpapers, with index. Tipped in is a publisher's review-copy publicity letter, with a handwritten note by the author to the prior owner dated 1993. IN MY OWN SWEET TIME recounts Blanche Cooney's Bronx childhood, her 49-year marriage to writer Joe Cooney, and the family's itinerant literary and communal life. Blanche Cooney is the author and co-founder of The Phoenix, the Woodstock literary pacifist quarterly, noteworthy for its publication of countercultural, radical, and revolutionary. The writing of Henry Miller, which could find no outlet elsewhere in the United States at the time, was featured in all of the initial issues, as were excerpts from the diaries of Anaïs Nin. The works of writers such as Hervey White, Kay Boyle and Jean Giono were printed in their entirety, as well as the poetry of Robert Duncan, Rayner Heppenstall, Derek Savage,Thomas McGrath, J. C. Crews and William Everson (Brother Antonius). The Phoenix published until 1940, when France's fall to the Third Reich sounded the death-knell (however temporarily) for peace periodicals in the United States. Signed by Author(s). N° de réf. du vendeur Annex-UP-Ohio
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