Hoopes, John

In Pocatello, Idaho, 1957-63, studying English and American Literature; there inspired by Ed Dorn, Black Mountain poet in residence, to start Wild Dog magazine, which flourished through twenty-one issues with Gino Sky and Drew Wagnon. Escaped Idaho for San Francisco in 1964, settled in Haight-Ashbury just as that revolution began: two decades passed in that transformative time in Marin County: raising two children, while work with John Lilly's Janus project on dolphin communication led to writing the earliest versions of THE DOLPHINS OF OCEANUS; also began investigating California/San Francisc...