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Richard William "Dick" McBride (May 8, 1928 – August 28, 2012) was an American beat poet, playwright and novelist. He worked at City Lights Booksellers & Publishers from 1954 to 1969. ==Life== Born in Washington, Indiana, McBride spent years traveling around Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kentucky and Nebraska working in radio, before moving to San Francisco, in the early 1950s.〔McBride, D: ''Remembered America: poems by Dick McBride'' Rue Bella, 2004 ISBN 0-9536710-9-7〕 Kenneth Patchen introduced him to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who offered him a job as store manager at the City Lights Bookstore. He worked at City Lights for 16 years〔 and became friends with Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and several other Beat Generation writers.〔McBride, D: ''Garden'' Annihilator Press, 1999.〕 In 1964, McBride moved to the United Kingdom for six months to help "bohemianize" Better Books in London for Tony Godwin.〔McBride, D: ''Live at The Big Chill Festival'' Audio CD-R, 2006.〕 In 1967, City Lights moved their publishing operation to 1562 Grant Avenue, McBride ran this part of the business with his brother Bob McBride and Martin Broadley for several years.〔Ferlinghetti, L. & Morgan, B., ''The Beat Generation in San Francisco: A Literary Tour'', City Lights Books, 2003, ISBN 0-87286-417-0〕 He returned to England in 1969, where he worked as the director of independent book distributors McBride Bros. and Broadley, selling books in England and to the Continent.〔 In the summer of 1973, McBride and Bernard Stone hosted a "Fourth of July Party" for Allen Ginsberg at the Turret Bookshop, London. Ginsberg’s ''Fall of America'' had been published earlier that year, and it seemed appropriate to hold a reading on the birthday of American Independence. The party is commemorated in his biography of Ginsberg, ''Cometh With Clouds'' (Cherry Valley Editions 1982).〔McBride, D., ''Cometh With Clouds (Memory: Allen Ginsberg)'' Cherry Valley Editions, 1982, ISBN 0-916156-51-6〕 Then during the 1980s, McBride moved on to Australia. In 1988, he returned to the UK and settled in West Malvern, Worcestershire. In November 1996, he was a guest at the Conegliano Poetry Festival, where he read his poetry alongside Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Andrey Voznesensky and Roger McGough. The festival was organised to honour City Lights and the Beats and to celebrate Allen Ginsberg's 70th birthday〔McBride D., "Allen Ginsberg and the blue rinse brigade" (''Urthona Art & Buddhism'' ) Issue 15, 2001.〕 In 2001 he collaborated with (Celluloid ) on the "Last Beat" project, a live and recorded performance project that received airplay on BBC Radio 3's ''Late Junction''. A UK tour followed, including a performance at the Birmingham ArtsFest.〔("Beat Goes On For Poet Dick" ) (''Redditch Advertiser'' ), 24 August 2001.〕 In 2006 he headlined the "Words In Motion" stage at the Big Chill Festival at Eastnor Castle. In January, 2009 McBride appeared at "The British Beat" event as part of the "Back On the Road" exhibition at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham. The exhibition featured the original manuscript scroll of Jack Kerouac's ''On the Road''. The event was curated by Professor (Dick Ellis ), Head of American and Canadian Studies at Birmingham University, and also featured readings by Jim Burns, Ian McMillan, David Tipton and Camelia Ellias. McBride lived in Colwall, Herefordshire, where he continued to write and perform〔Bills-Geddes, G., "Grand Old Man of the Beat Generation", (''Malvern Gazette'' ), 29 February 2008.〕 until his death in August 2012, aged 84. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dick McBride (poet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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