First--as one person stated, "maybe we should write our own instead
of" letting the final statement/s be a sanitized, homogenized
parody--I remind you that several of us on this list are putting
together an anthology of chapters/pieces from our novels or memoirs of
the time, for online and perhaps hardcopy publication. The basic
group is now formed, but WE ARE STILL OPEN FOR APPROPRIATE MATERIAL;
contact me at pnfpnf@aol.com if you have something.
Second, as I privately emailed Denton, from 1969 to 1975 (mostly
1969-70) some of us in Berkeley published the tabloid-format OPEN
CELL, a collectively run literary review that arose out of the
Berkeley movement and developed from a "Workshop for Working Writers"
I ran at the new Free University of Berkeley just after People's Park.
As you might expect, the poetry, stories and other prose, artwork, and
photographs very much reflect the ideas and styles of the times. We
particularly insisted on at least half the work being by women, and we
included pieces by prisoners, seniors, minorities, disabled, etc., as
a matter of policy. Decisions were collective, but the literary
quality does not seem--I recently reread some issues--to have suffered
any. I can make some copies available, to some extent, of all but the
first and 15th issue (out of 18), possibly xeroxes of those, if of
interest for possible course use (with minimal charge, for expenses).
Again, email me at pnfpnf@aol.com if interested.
Re lack of interest, academically and by publishers, in the
'60s--you don't suppose, do you, some bit of this may arise
politically, as in "social engineering"?
Paula Friedman