HAND PRINTED POEM BY A YOUNG PETER FONDA

Fonda, Peter

Editore: California, U.S.A., 1964

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A hand-printed ten-line poem on the back of his grandmother's stationery, upon which is engraved in blue: Mrs. Eugene F. Seymour, and her address in Los Angeles, California. Provenance: The poem was found among some other Fonda family correspondence dating from the early to mid-sixties, and the printing matches every other located example of Fonda's characteristic printed hand. Given that the address on his grandmother's stationery was pre-zip code, this poem would be pre-1963 Fonda was a popular actor who was nominated for and won several prestigious acting awards, including an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay for "Easy Rider", and went on to have a number of significant film roles. The undated poem, penned in blue ballpoint ink, is essentially juvenalia, reflecting upon what must have been a pained and troubled youth, a child of a famous Hollywood icon. Fonda emerged out of a seriously troubled upbringing. His mother committed suicide when Fonda was ten years old, and the next year, he accidentally shot himself, nearly fatally. The young poet clearly states that the pain of his past will never disappear. He concludes: "until my past/has passed." Peter Fonda was born in 1940, New York City, the only son of actor Henry Fonda and socialite Frances Ford Seymour; his older sister is Hollywood actress, activist, and workout maven Jane Fonda.Their mother, the second Henry's five wives, committed suicide in a mental hospital when Peter, her youngest, was ten." Peter Fonda wrote in an interview (probably Esquire Magazine's 1968 profile of the actor "Holden Caufield at 27") : "Nobody told me the truth about my mother, man. I was ten years old and I didn't understand. I just knew she was dead and I was all alone. I didn't find out how my mother died until I was fifteen. I was sitting in this barber's chair in Rome and I picked up a magazine and read about her doing herself in {,} in an insane asylum. It blew my mind, man. And nobody to this day has ever told me anything.". Codice articolo 88777

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Titolo: HAND PRINTED POEM BY A YOUNG PETER FONDA

Casa editrice: California, U.S.A.

Data di pubblicazione: 1964

Legatura: Single Sheet

Condizione: Very Good