Bibbe Hansen: Factory Poems

Bibbe Hansen comes from a well known family of remarkable artists. Her late father was Fluxus artist Al Hansen, her son Beck is a musician and son Channing a visual artist. Bibbe is a writer, performer and visual artist. As a teenager she was a member of the group “The Whippets” with Jack Kerouac's daughter Jan Kerouac, releasing the 7" single Go Go Go With Ringo in 1964. That same year, while visiting galleries with her father Al, she met Andy Warhol who decided then and there to make a film based on her experiences called Prison where she starred alongside Edie Sedgwick, Pat Hartley and Marie Menken. Bibbe went on to appear in numerous other Warhol films including Restaurant, 10 Beautiful Girls, 10 More Beautiful Girls, and sat for two of Warhol's Screen Tests. 

We are pleased to present Factory Poems, a collection of poems dedicated to the mélange of characters that inhabited the inner orbit of Andy Warhol's Factory during the 1960s and 70s. The subjects of her poems include Andy Warhol, Billy Name, Brigid Berlin, Candy Darling, Chuck Wein, Dorothy Dean, Gerard Malanga, Edie Sedgwick, Freddie Herko, Holly Woodlawn, Ivy Nicholson, Jane Holzer, Joe Dallesandro, John Giorno, Leee Black Childers, Marie Menken, Mario Montez, Mary Woronov, Ondine, Pat Hartley, Stephen Shore, Taylor Mead, Tiger Morse, Ultra Violet, and Viva. Each poem is accompanied by a photograph of the subject including photos by Bobby Grossman, Kate Simon, Dagon James, and previously unpublished Factory Fotos by Hansen's lifelong friend and Factory photographer, Billy Name. Factory Poems opens with the foreword by Andy Warhol scholar Anastasia James and is unlike any other Warhol adjacent book ever published.