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During the Depression, he attend Brooklyn College where he became young lovers with Chester Kallman. The pair met W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood at the British authors' first American reading in 1939. Kallman and Auden became long-term partners while Norse served as Auden's secretary. In the 1940s, Norse was a participant in the bohemian milieu of Greenwich Village, befriending everyone from Paul Goodman and James Baldwin to Tennessee Williams and a teenage Allen Ginsberg. Norse was instrumental in helping Julian Beck and Judith Malina establish The Living Theater. Though initially influenced by the poetry of Eliot and Pound, Norse rejected the academic voice when he began a friendship with the poet William Carlos Williams who encouraged the young poet to write in his native Brooklyn tongue, what Williams called the American Idiom.   In 1955 Norse left America in response to the political and sexual repression of the McCarthy era. Settling in Italy for a number of years, Norse translated the bawdy, anti-papal sonnets of 19th century Roman poet G.G. Belli. From Italy, Norse traveled to North Africa where he stayed with his friends Paul and Jane Bowles. By the end of the '50s, he moved to Paris where he lived for many years at the infamous Beat Hotel. Along with William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, Norse was instrumental in developing Cut Ups, that is cutting up words to free writing from the strictures of rational thought. By the mid 1960s, Norse set sail for the Greek Islands, including Hydra, where he befriended the young Canadian folk singer Leonard Cohen. His remaining European travels included Switzerland, London and Germany.  Norse repatriated in 1969 returning to Venice, California where he became friends with Charles Bukowski, who spoke admirably of Norse's poetry. Within a couple years Norse had settled in San Francisco where his collection of poems, Hotel Nirvana, was published by City Lights prestigious Pocket Poets Series and nominated for a 1974 National Book Award. Carnivorous Saint, his collection of gay themed poems, was published in 1976. In the late 1970s, Norse purchased a house in Monte Rio owned by his friend the writer Andrei Codrescu. He lived for several years amongst the redwoods and wrote a number of poems that were included in his collection The Love Poems published in 1986.  Three years later Norse's Memoirs of a Bastard Angel was published to great acclaim. His collected poems, In The Hub of the Fiery Force, was published in 2003 and the poet died in San Francisco in 2009. Norse's archives are housed at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley and a selected edition of poetry was published in 2014."},{"label":"Search SCL Digital Archives for this Author","value":["Norse, Harold, 1916-2009"]},{"label":"Search Author or Book in Library Catalog","value":"Search for works by Harold Norse in the <a href=\"https://find.sonomalibrary.org/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=%22Norse%2C+Harold%22&te=&rt=false%7C%7C%7CAuthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">library catalog</a>"},{"label":"Author Website","value":"View <a href=\"https://haroldnorse.com/ \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">personal or professional website</a> for Harold Norse"},{"label":"Search Author in Open Library","value":"Search for works by Harold Norse in <a href=\"https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Norse+Harold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Library</a>"},{"label":"Author's Place(s) of Residence","value":["Monte Rio"]},{"label":"Sort Title","value":"Harold Norse (1916-2009)"},{"label":"Significant Title","value":"Memoirs of a Bastard Angel"},{"label":"Digital Archives Identifier","value":"harold_norse"},{"label":"Digital Archives Collection Name(s)","value":["Sonoma County Local Authors"]},{"label":"Date Added","value":"2015/02/23"},{"label":"Filename","value":"harold_norse.jpg"},{"label":"Title","value":"Harold Norse (1916-2009)"},{"label":"Item Type","value":["Text"]},{"label":"Item Format or Genre","value":["Biography files","Bibliographies","Portraits","Photographs"]},{"label":"Search SC Local Arts for this Author or Artist","value":"<a href=\"https://digital.sonomalibrary.org/documents?filter_363=harold_norse&applyState=true\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harold Norse (1916-2009)</a>"},{"label":"Collection(s)","value":["Sonoma County Local Authors"]},{"label":"Author Name (Controlled)","value":["Harold Norse (1916-2009)"]}],"description":"Harold Norse (1916-2009)","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/4b4762fd-b869-414d-ba67-277ab73e17e4/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Harold Norse (1916-2009)","height":448,"width":450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/4b4762fd-b869-414d-ba67-277ab73e17e4/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/4b4762fd-b869-414d-ba67-277ab73e17e4","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1]}]},"height":448,"width":450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/4b4762fd-b869-414d-ba67-277ab73e17e4/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/4b4762fd-b869-414d-ba67-277ab73e17e4/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/4b4762fd-b869-414d-ba67-277ab73e17e4/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/logo"}