Michael John Fles
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| Michael John Fles | |
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| Born | 1936 London |
| Occupation | poet, editor, musician, and film personality |
| Nationality | American |
| Writing period | 1959-1995 |
| Genres | poetry, fiction, nonfiction |
| Relative(s) | George Fles, Louis Fles Barthold Fles, Bart Berman |
Michael John Fles (b. 1936), known both as John Fles and Michael Fles, is an American poet, editor, musician and film personality. Professor David James referred to him as "the single most important promoter of underground film" in Los Angeles, California.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Michael John Fles was born to a Dutch father, George Fles, and a British mother, Pearl Rimel. As conscious communists, his parents had moved to the Soviet Union, where his father fell victim to Stalin's repressions. The mother, pregnant with Michael John, left the Soviet Union to give birth in London. Mother and son later emigrated to the United States, where Pearl Rimel found employment in the aircraft industry. Michael John grew up in Los Angeles and Ojai, California, where he attended boarding school.
[edit] Beatnik poet and editor
Fles studied at the University of Chicago, but did not graduate. While a student, he became the managing editor of the "Chicago Review." [2] Fles was involved in the founding of the influential literary magazine, "Big Table" in 1959 and later he was the editor of "The Trembling Lamb," a one shot literary magazine which published Antonin Artaud's "Van Gogh: The Man Suicided by Society," LeRoi Jones's "The System of Dante's Inferno," and Carl Solomon's "Danish Impase." In 1960 and 1961 he was a managing and contributing editor of "Kulchur" .[3] During all these years he published his poetry far and wide.[2]
[edit] Musician
Over the last several decades, Michael has been active as a musician. He lives in Westhaven-Moonstone, California.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Poetry and fiction
- 1964 - Doon Glyn, Summer 1963
- "Are Movies Junk?" Film Culture 29.
- The Man Who Lived Underground (with John Evans, and Richard Wright)
[edit] Nonfiction
- 1960 - "The End of the Affair, or Beyond the Beat Generation," Village Voice 6 (8)(Dec 15): 4.
- 1960 - "The Root," Kulchur 1960 (Spring): 39-40
- 1964 - Seeing is Believing
- 1995 - "Sound Wave Mirror", chapter 11 in Kenny CB (editor): Listening, Playing, Creating: Essays on the Power of Sound. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
[edit] References
- ^ James DE (editor): Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005, page 75. ISBN 1592132723
- ^ a b McDarrah FW, and McDarrah TS: Kerouac and Friends: A Beat Generation Album. Greenwich Village, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002, page 265. ISBN 1560254807
- ^ RealityStudio ยป Kulchur
