The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder 1956-1991 - Hardcover

Snyder, Gary; Ginsberg, Allen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582434441 ISBN 13: 9781582434445

Publisher: Counterpoint, 2008

Synopsis

One of the central relationships in the Beat scene was the long–lasting friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Ginsberg introduced Snyder to the East Coast Beat writers, including Jack Kerouac, while Snyder himself became the model for the serious poet that Ginsberg so wanted to become. Snyder encouraged Ginsberg to explore the beauty of the West Coast and, even more lastingly, introduced Ginsberg to Buddhism, the subject of so many long letter exchanges between them. Beginning in 1956 and continuing through 1991, the two men exchanged more than 850 letters. Bill Morgan, Ginsberg's biographer and an important editor of his papers, has selected the most significant correspondence from this long friendship. The letters themselves paint the biographical and poetic portraits of two of America's most important—and most fascinating—poets. Robert Hass' insightful introduction discusses the lives of these two major poets and their enriching and moving relationship.

About this title

Synopsis

Spans thirty-five years of correspondence between the long-time friends and writers, from 1956 to 1991, in a volume that offers a fascinating look inside the lives of the two men, the Beat Generation, and twentieth-century American literature, accompanied by profiles of the two authors and their relationship.

Edition details

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1582434441
• ISBN 13: 9781582434445
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Morgan Bill