Walker Talks: Jaime D'Angulo

Walker Talks: Jaime D'Angulo

Jaime De Angulo—daimonic scholar, gatherer of mystic word-lore, legendary bohemian bay area presence, he-who-rolled-in-ditches-with-shamans. Inspirer of generations of free-thinkers, anthropologists, and poets. Gary Snyder commends him as "a lavengro, a language-spirit-master".  His linguistic writings are primary sources of a great deal of material that would otherwise be long lost. He is also one of the greatest storytellers, so far, who has ever lived.  His recitations of spoken tales, on KPFA radio in the late 1940s, are classics of their kind, gifting the American vernacular with mythic figures of archaic vitality.