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Genre/Form: | Biography |
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Named Person: | Allen Ginsberg; Allen Ginsberg; Allen Ginsberg |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Barry Miles |
ISBN: | 9780753522523 0753522527 |
OCLC Number: | 559810920 |
Description: | x, 630 pages ; 20 cm |
Contents: | Machine generated contents note: 1. Childhood, Paterson -- 2. Columbia Education. The Origins of the Beat Generation -- 3. Street Education -- 4. Subterraneans -- 5. On the Road to California -- 6. Howl and the San Francisco Renaissance -- 7. Classic Stations of the Earth -- 8. Kaddish -- 9. Ayahuasca in Peru -- 10. Cut-Ups -- 11. India -- 12. Change -- 13. King of May -- 14. Into the Vortex -- 15. Paterfamilias -- 16. Lion of Dharma -- 17. Eminence Grise -- 18. Good Grey Poet. |
Responsibility: | Barry Miles. |
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"This is a scholarly work and also much fun." * Guardian * "Will surely be consulted as an Ur-text for decades to come. Read it at the end, along with Ginsberg's fifteen best books, and you'll know why he matters." -- Michael Horowitz * Sunday Times * "Skilfully evokes the poet's childhood, authoritatively expresses his opinions on sundry matters of later life and work, gives him his due as lifeforce of youthful rebellion and in the 1960s counter. Read it; you'll enjoy yourself." -- Paul Berman * New York Times * "Concentrating on the simultaneity of the public and private in Ginsberg's life, Miles gives us a richer insight into his poetic value - and a better read - than many a tight-lipped critical filleting." -- Saul Frampton * Time Out * Read more...

