Ron Loewinsohn

Ron Loewinsohn (born 1937 in the Philippines) is an American poet and novelist.

Life
Loewinsohn was born in the Philippines.

He was a Beat poet in San Francisco in the 1950's. In 1959 (before Lowinsohn was in college), his first collection of poetry was published by Amiri Baraka}LeRoi Jones, with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg and a prefatory letter by William Carlos Williams. Julia Summer,, The Berkeleyan, July 15, 1998, University of California at Berkeley. Web, Mar. 11, 2013.

He earned a B.A. from Berkeley in 1967, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1971.

Recognition
Richard Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America]] is dedicated to Loewinsohn and poet Jack Spicer.

Publications

 * Watermelons (introduction by Allen Ginsberg; prefatory letter by William Carlos Williams). New York: Totem Press, 1959.
 * The World of the Lie. San Francisco, CA: Change Press, 1963.
 * "Against the Silences to Come." Writing, No. 4 Four Seasons Foundation, San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965..
 * L'autre. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1967.
 * The Step. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1968.
 * Meat Air: Poems 1957-1969. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1970.
 * Goat Dances. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976
 * Magnetic Field(s). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
 * Where All the Ladders Start. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987.