- Creator
- Joans, Ted
- Call number
- Sc MG 716
- Physical description
- .8 linear feet (2 archival boxes)
- Preferred Citation
- [Item], Ted Joans collection, Sc MG 716, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
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Ted Joans was a painter, poet and trumpeter, member of the New York Greenwich Village literary Beat Generation. He was among the first to set his poems to jazz music. His style is associated with the oral tradition of African-American writing but also to the Beat Generation. Joans a self identified surrealist, was the author of over 30 books. Joans was born in 1928, Cairo, Ill. and died at the age of 74 in Vancouver. The Ted Joans collection consists mainly of correspondence and notes (1969-2003). The bulk of the material is between Hy Shore, Joans attorney, agent and friend, with a folder of material on Jim Haynes, a client and friend of Hy Shore and a key social figure in the expatriate community in Paris. Also included is the typescript for "The Hipsters" (1961), poems, sketches and cartoon style drawings (mostly on envelopes).
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift, Estate of Hy Shore, 01/--/2004
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor