1. Charles Plymell has published, printed, and designed many underground magazines and books with his wife Pamela Beach, a namesake in avant-garde publishing.
14 Facts About Charles Plymell
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Charles Plymell published former prisoner Ray Bremser and Herbert Huncke, whom he identified with from the hipster 1950s.
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Charles Plymell was influential in the underground comix scene, first printing Zap Comix artists such as Robert Crumb and S Clay Wilson, whom he first published in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Charles Plymell received a citation for being a distinguished poet by Governor Joan Finney of Kansas and was cited in the 1976 World Book Encyclopedia as a most promising poet.
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Charley Douglass Charles Plymell was born in Finney County, Kansas during the worst dust storms of that time.
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Charles Plymell was born in a converted chicken coop near Holcomb.
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In Wichita in the 1950s Charles Plymell dropped out of his first year at Wichita North High School, lied about his age, traveled the western states in a new car his father bought him, working on pipelines, dams, factories and riding bareback broncs and Brahma bulls in rodeos.
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Charles Plymell worked at factories and took courses at Wichita State University.
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Charles Plymell did not meet the Beats until 1963 when associated with Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S Burroughs.
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Charles Plymell's Vortex is written about in his Tent Shaker Vortex Voice.
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Charles Plymell moved to a quiet Russian neighborhood in 1962 at the corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco.
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Promptly Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady moved in with him where Charles Plymell played Bob Dylan to Ginsberg for the first time.
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Charles Plymell's show sold out except for a few pieces that ended up in Australia.
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Charles Plymell has written songs for Clubberlanggang, and is working on a book with his poems for Neal Cassady and Bob Branaman put to rockabilly by Bloodshot Bill of Norton Records.