Background
James Richard Broughton was born on November 10, 1913, in Modesto, California.
Broughton was educated at Stanford University.
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James Richard Broughton was born on November 10, 1913, in Modesto, California.
Broughton was educated at Stanford University.
Broughton taught at San Francisco State University and San Francisco Art Institute and was resident playwright with the Playhouse Repertory Theater from 1958 to 1964. Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton (2013) is a feature-length documentary on the poet, directed by Stephen Silha, Eric Slade, and Dawn Logsdon.
Broughton died at home in Port Townsend, Washington, where he spent the final decade of his life. A selection of his papers is held at the Kent State University Department of Special Collections and Archives.
Quotations: "My creeping decrepitude has crept me all the way to the crypt."
Alongside poets Kenneth Rexroth and Robert Duncan, Broughton was a member of the San Francisco Renaissance movement.
According to an obituary in the New York Times, the author once described himself as “Anglican by birth, Taoist by nature, Dionysian in spirit, and Apollonian in practice”.
Broughton had never hidden his love affairs with both men and women. Among his male lovers was gay activist Harry Hay.
Quotes from others about the person
“Broughton is a real master of catchy meters and bubbling, twisted clichés, which after they have caught, bite.”
Broughton briefly lived with the film critic Pauline Kael and they had a daughter, Gina, who was born in 1948.
Broughton married, when he was 49, Suzanna Hart in a three-day ceremony on the Pacific coast, documented by his friend, the experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage. Hart and Broughton had two children, and built a counter-culture community along with friends including Alan Watts, Michael McClure, Anna Halprin, and Imogen Cunningham.
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