It's All Good: A John Sinclair Reader + CD - Softcover

John Sinclair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900486687 ISBN 13: 9781900486682

Publisher: HEADPRESS, 2009

Synopsis

A sampling of John Sinclair's acclaimed music journalism and poetry spanning 40 years. It's All Good includes selections from his epic works in verse as well as writings on Iggy Pop, John Lennon, Jack Kerouac, Irma Thomas and Sun Ra, to name but a few. It also illuminates Sinclair's legendary period as a cultural revolutionary and political prisoner, manager of MC5 and Chairman of the White Panther Movement. Also includes 32 iconic photos from the 1960s and 70s by Leni Sinclair along with a 13-track CD.

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About the Author

John Sinclair (born October 2, 1941) is an American poet, writer, and political activist from Flint, Michigan. Sinclair's defining style is jazz poetry, and he has released most of his works in audio formats. Most of his pieces include musical accompaniment, usually by a varying group of collaborators dubbed Blues Scholars.

As an emerging young poet in the mid-1960s, Sinclair took on the role of manager for the Detroit rock band MC5. The band's politically charged music and its Yippie core audience dovetailed with Sinclair's own radical development. In 1968, while still working with the band, he conspicuously served as a founding member of the White Panther Party, a militantly anti-racist socialist group and counterpart of the Black Panthers.

Arrested for possession of marijuana in 1969, Sinclair was given ten years in prison. The sentence was criticized by many as unduly harsh, and it galvanized a noisy protest movement led by prominent figures of the 1960s counterculture. Sinclair was eventually freed in December 1971, but he remained in litigation - his case against the government for illegal domestic surveillance was successfully pleaded to the US Supreme Court in United States v. U.S. District Court (1972).

Sinclair eventually left the US and took up residency in Amsterdam. He continues to write and record and, since 2005, has hosted a regular radio program, The John Sinclair Radio Show, as well as produced a line-up of other shows on his own radio station, Radio Free Amsterdam.

Edition details

• Publisher: HEADPRESS
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1900486687
• ISBN 13: 9781900486682
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298