Robert Huffstutter - Beatnik Poems From The 50's

This is just the kind of thing I love, and it's what makes the internet a great thing. I'm always on the lookout for cool stuff from the beat era. There's not as much as you might think. Obviously, people weren't documenting every moment with digital cameras like they do now. So many instances have just been lost into the ether and with the passage of time, more and more things disappear. Now, some 50 years and more from the time when these cats haunted the coffee houses of the worlds bohemian areas, it's rare that things turn up. I always wonder how much wonderful stuff is locked away in someone's attic or steamer trunk somewhere.

There's a guy named Robert Huffstutter. He has a fantastic collection of stuff on Flickr as well as a blog of photo essays and he is an original beatnik. Not one of the famous beats that hung out with Kerouac or Ginsberg, but of the unsung poets and artists whose work has been lost to us for decades. Recently he posted scans of the covers of a few of his spiral bound notebooks of poetry that he had re-discovered. I thought they were beautiful examples of the time period as well as the particular subculture of artists that I've devoted this blog to. He has graciously allowed me to post them here and told me he would send me some of the poems eventually. I'm really looking forward to reading them.

Dig these homemade covers.