The Late Great Allen Ginsberg: A Photo Biography - Softcover

Felver, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560253827 ISBN 13: 9781560253822

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003

Synopsis

Many of the seminal figures of contemporary culture knew and worked with Allen Ginsberg and have a place in this book. Among them are Cecil Taylor, David Amram, Philip Glass, Ray Manzarek, Ed Sanders, Czeslaw Milosz, Norman Mailer, RobertFrank, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs, Philip Whalen, Peter Orlovsky, and Robert Creeley. In this book we truly see Allen Ginsberg as a poet, a spiritualist, a friend, a lover, a performer, a teacher, and a lover of good times. A complex and many-faceted life is given its due in this inspired photographic history of Ginsberg?s life from 1980 through 1997. The Late Great Allen Ginsberg is a deeply moving recollection of America?s most important post-World War II poet, informed by Ginsberg?s sensitivity, his love of life, and his humanitarianism. ?Allen Ginsberg spent hardly any time alone.? We see him giving poetry readings and workshops, chatting with friends, pursued by...

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Synopsis:

An illustrated life of the seminal American poet retraces his fabulous journey from his youth as the son of an outspoken communist through his memorable post-war antics as a founding father of the beat movement, 1960s radical, and American poet laurete. Original.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1560253827
• ISBN 13: 9781560253822
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128