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« Avec l’arrivée de Neal a commencé cette partie de ma vie qu’on pourrait appeler ma vie sur la route. […] Neal, c’est le type idéal, pour la route, parce que lui, il y est né, sur la route… » Neal Cassady, chauffard génial, prophète gigolo à la bisexualité triomphale, pique-assiette inspiré et vagabond mystique, est assurément la plus grande rencontre de Jack Kerouac, avec Allen Ginsberg et William Burroughs. La virée, dans sa bande originale : un long ruban de papier, analogue à celui de la ... Read more
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Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish," a poem about the death of his mother, Naomi, is one of his major works. This special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kaddish and Other Poems features an illuminating afterword by Ginsberg biographer Bill Morgan, along with previously unpublished photographs, documents, and letters relating to the composition of the poem.Allen Ginsberg, founding father of the Beat Generation, inspired the American counterculture of the second half of the twentieth century with ... Read more
New venture founders and their sponsors seek to create economic value by finding and commercializing new and better ways of doing things. Their common goal, which also defines the purpose of the entrepreneurial process itself, requires a better grasp of the key elements that influence the choices involved in attempting to create economic value under highly uncertain conditions. It also requires a deeper understanding of the consequences of new venture investment as well as the various ... Read more
With captions by Allen Ginsberg and a preface by William S. Burroughs, this is the only book to celebrate and chronicle the gay parade in NYC during its heyday. An all-new collection-none of the photos, captions, or preface has ever been published before! Taken during the early days of the gay pride parade, these photos were captioned by Allen Ginsberg and laid aside until now. This book provides a unique and personal look into the roots of one the city's most vibrant traditions, as well ... Read more
The epigraph for Howl is from Walt Whitman: "Unscrew the locks from the doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" Announcing his intentions with this ringing motto, Allen Ginsberg published a volume of poetry which broke so many social taboos that copies were impounded as obscene, and the publisher, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, was arrested. The court case that followed found for Ginsberg and his publisher, and the publicity made both the poet and the book famous. Ginsberg ... Read more
poetry, fat Pocket Poets series volume
40th anniversary hardback of Pocket Poets classic
poetry, Pocket Poets
poetry, Pocket Poets series
Allen Ginsberg made his mark, along with Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder and others, in the Beat movement, a poetry of social protest that refused perceived elitist boundaries. Tortured by the paranoia and mental illness of his immigrant mother, and by his own homosexuality in a society that was homophobic, Ginsberg's early work was as much a measure of his self-loathing as his detestation of social hypocrisy and injustice. His poems reached depths of humiliation and shame that presaged a ... Read more
These revealing, personal journals of America's most influential living poet are "the essential record of the questing, wild-eyed, lustful young poet's sexual, spiritual, and literary odyssey"--Kirkus Reviews (starred)
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