Herbert Gold

Mar 12, 2024 | lithub.com | Fady Joudah |Herbert Gold |Ari Gold |Rowan Ricardo Phillips

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Mar 8, 2024 | lithub.com | Jessie Gaynor |Herbert Gold

Mortality is the imagination’s greatest engine. For my father, who  almost reached a second century on earth, nearing the exit made him a poet. When Herbert Gold was seventeen, he managed to publish a single poem in a local Cleveland paper. Embarrassed at the results a few weeks later, he abandoned poetry, enlisted in the Army, studied philosophy at Columbia and the Sorbonne, and after publishing  a few well-received novels, followed his buddy Allen Ginsberg to San Francisco.