Frankie Edie Kerouac Parker (or something like that)
Frankie "Edie" Parker-Kerouac remains somewhat of a publishing mystery. I had been under the impression that Jack Kerouac's first wife never published anything, until I stumbled across Kerouac and the Beats: A Primary Sourcebook, edited by the tireless Arthur and Kit Knight. That book does the great disservice of including a very impartial citation for what appears to be an excerpt of a longer work. All we get is: "Jack & Neal in Grosse Pointe" from You'll Be Okay. Copyright (c) 1987 by Frankie Edith Kerouac Parker [sic]. That's it. Nothing else. Going back through my pile of books, I find an entirely different passage, but thankfully, a more complete citation in Richard Peabody's A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation:
"The excerpt from Frankie "Edie" Kerouac-Parker's memoir You'll Be Okay is used by permission of publisher M. L. Liebler. Copyright (c) 1987 by the Ridgeway Press of Michigan."
A little different than the Knight's citation, and STILL I can't find any book called You'll Be Okay. I search Worldcat FirstSearch for "Ridgeway Press," but all I find that could possibly be related is the same record I've retrieved over and over again when searching the author's name:
To William S. Burroughs : essays & poems /
F E Kerouac-Parker1987
English Book [1], 10, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Roseville, Mich. : Ridgeway Press,
To William S. Burroughs :essays & poems /
Remembering Mrs. William Seward Burroughs, Joan Vollmer Adams -- Seventy white candles in the limelight -- To Bill -- Save the frescoes.
Note(s):
"Celebrating the River City Reunion in Lawrence, Kansas, September 1987."
Responsibility:
by Frankie "Edie" Kerouac-Parker.
There are only 5 libraries worldwide that own this item, and I'm not entirely sure it's one and the same, but it's the closest I've been able to come.
Damn you Frankie / Edie / Edith / Kerouac-Parker / Kerouac / Kerouac Parker for having so many different names!
"The excerpt from Frankie "Edie" Kerouac-Parker's memoir You'll Be Okay is used by permission of publisher M. L. Liebler. Copyright (c) 1987 by the Ridgeway Press of Michigan."
A little different than the Knight's citation, and STILL I can't find any book called You'll Be Okay. I search Worldcat FirstSearch for "Ridgeway Press," but all I find that could possibly be related is the same record I've retrieved over and over again when searching the author's name:
To William S. Burroughs : essays & poems /
F E Kerouac-Parker1987
English Book [1], 10, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Roseville, Mich. : Ridgeway Press,
To William S. Burroughs :essays & poems /
Remembering Mrs. William Seward Burroughs, Joan Vollmer Adams -- Seventy white candles in the limelight -- To Bill -- Save the frescoes.
Note(s):
"Celebrating the River City Reunion in Lawrence, Kansas, September 1987."
Responsibility:
by Frankie "Edie" Kerouac-Parker.
There are only 5 libraries worldwide that own this item, and I'm not entirely sure it's one and the same, but it's the closest I've been able to come.
Damn you Frankie / Edie / Edith / Kerouac-Parker / Kerouac / Kerouac Parker for having so many different names!
posted by Rebecca at 10:14 PM
13 Comments:
Dear Rebecca,
I too have been a fan of Burroughs, Kerouac, and the associated Beats for years. Raised in Metro Detroit near Grosse Pointe, I frequented the Rustic Cabins Bar more times than I care to remember, drinking VO & Ginger Ale’s in honor of Jack & Edie. And like you, I too have been trying to locate a copy of the 1987 Edie Parker manuscript, You’ll Be Okay. So far, I have been unsuccessful.
However, I would recommended that you check out this resource:
Edie Parker. You'll Be Okay [holograph manuscript]. Draft of Parker’s unpublished memoirs. Edie Parker-Henri Cru Papers, Beat Literature Collection.
Wilson Library, Rare Book Collections, CB#3930, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890 / 919.962.1143 / wilsonlibrary@unc.edu
Available at: http://www.lib.unc.edu/rbc/Kerouac-exhib/checklist.html
All the best, and as ever,
Kuzma
Hello...my name is Christopher Carmona and you have a great blog on the women of the Beat Generation...I am a graduate student at UT-Brownsville and I am working on my thesis on Joan Vollmer and Edie Parker. I guess my question is, have you been able to track down any more information on either of them...my email is forbidden_art@yahoo.com. Thank you
I have some copies of Edie's little book,
"To William S. Burroughs: Essays and Poems" by Frankie Kerouac-Parker, which she put together for the River City Reunion, 1087, Lawrence, KS.
I believe it is chosen excerpts from her writing. I traded her some luggage for several copies. I am not sure but it was either 100 were printed but not more than 500 copies were made. I have pictures of them on my web page. I really like the little book.
http://www.sunflower.com/%7Epelliott/inv/index.html
Patricia
"Essays and Poems" by Frankie 'Edie' keroua-Parker is a little pamplet book.
She put it together, urged by James and William for the River City Reunion from her writings. I would say it was printed rather than published by Ridgway Press (Roseville Mi.) 1987.
It begins with an eight page essay "Remembering Mrs. William Seward Burroughs; Joan Vollmer Adams" which it is stated is excerpted from the forthcoming autobiograph"You'll Be Okay".
The eight page essay is in very small print. It is a brief description of her and jack getting an apartment, finding a room mate, Joan, and described the time and some of the events and relationship.
it is like snap shot.
Then there are some one page poems,
"To Bill"
"Save The Frescoes"
and the last page is a list of books from Ridgeway Press which included
two by Edie
1982 Save The Frescoes That Are Us: A Detroit Tribute to Jack kerouac
edited by M.L. liebler & F.E. Kerouac-Parker
1987 To William S. Burroughs by F.E. Kerouac-Parker
So the little book has about 10 pages.
patricia
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http://www.beatp.org/
Well, you must know that Edie Parker's book has finally been published this fall by City Lights?
Does anyone know where I can find free online grant applications?
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