Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps (Citadel Underground) - Softcover

Grogan, Emmett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806511680 ISBN 13: 9780806511689

Publisher: Citadel Press, 1990

Synopsis

"Ringolevio" is the memorable tale of Emmett Grogan and the Diggers, the irreverent urban guerrillas anti masters and masters of street theater who made San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury a home, putting on Grateful Dead dances in Golden Gate Park, ladling out free stew to all comers in the park's Panhandle, and keeping the peace with the cops. While Kesey's Merry Prankster's were off tripping the light fantastic, the Diggers were transforming the Haight from a seedy district of abandoned Victorian houses into an evanescent paradise on earth.

For anyone who thinks that those were days only of peace, love and flower power, Ringolevio will be a revelation, as it evokes the gritty urban sensibility that supplied the backbone to the community's free flights of fancy.

Vastly entertaining, Ringolevio is at once high adventure, political screed, social history. and hyperbolic memoir. This classic traces the story of Emmett Grogan, a larger-than-life sixties legend of great controversy, from the streets of New York to the heights of the Haight.

Citadel Underground's edition of Ringolevio features a new introducing by the actor Peter Coyote, one of Grogan's oldest friends, a fellow Digger and a veteran of the San Francisco Mime Troupe.

"The San Francisco Diggers combined Dada street theater with the revolutionary politics of free". Slum-alley saints, they lit up the period by spreading the poetry of love and anarchy with broad strokes of artistic genius. Their free store, communications network of instant offset survival poetry, along with an Indian-inspired consciousness, was the original white light of the era. Emmett Grogan was the hippie warrior par excellence. He was also a junkie, amaniac, a gifted actor, a rebel hero, ...and above all a pain in the ass to all his friends. Ringolevio is half-brilliant". -- Abbie Hoffman

About this title

Product Description:

Autobiography of the prime mover of the San Francisco Diggers. A truly wonderful read, and a great insight into what the 60's were REALLY like.

Review:

'one of my favourite books ... The Diggers were devoted to genuine egalitarianism ... this is their story as much as Grogan's and is one of the most fascinating books ever written about sixties counterculture'

(Dylan Jones New Statesman)

About this edition

• Publisher: Citadel Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0806511680
• ISBN 13: 9780806511689
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 495