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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A London Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year In this exhilarating and kaleidoscopic investigation of American identity, Greil Marcus traces the nation's fable of self invention from its earliest Puritan beginnings to its successive retellings in the work of diverse contemporary artists. Marcus considers the birth of America as a New Jerusalem, a place of promises so vast that they ... Read more
"An unbeatable combination of literate writing and superb color photography make this a very special reference." -- Travel and LeisureCreated by local writers and photographers, Compass American Guides are the ultimate insider's guides, providing in-depth coverage of the history, culture, and character of America's most spectacular destinations. Covering everything there is to see and do as well as choice lodging and dining, these gorgeous full-color guides are perfect for new and ... Read more
The terrible fact about Francis Ford Coppola's career is that it will always be divided evenly in half, down a line called Apocalypse Now. Before that film is prodigious promise--an Academy Award for writing Patton, two uncannily fine Godfather movies, and the Antonioni-esque smallness of The Conversation. After, there is telescoping debt, talk of reinventing the studios, and multiple, hollow exercises in style. If that's a tough assessment, it's one borne out by this thick, fair ... Read more
Fuente: Wikipedia. P?ginas: 154. Cap?tulos: Jack Kerouac, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Bukowski, Emily Dickinson, James Russell Lowell, Patti Smith, Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet, H.D., Hakim Bey, Joaquin Miller, James Avery, Dr. Seuss, Emilie Autumn, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elizabeth Bishop, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Robert Creeley, Frances Sargent Osgood, Sylvia Plath, William Henry Leonard Poe, Joseph Brodsky, Gloria Anzald?a, Charles Olson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Maya ... Read more
A charter member of the legendary New York School of poets that includes John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch has become one of America's best known and best loved poets. His apt parodies and zany poetic conceits have earned him the distinction of being the funniest poet in America, and his extravagant imagination and knack for high hilarity have pleased generations of readers. Here, in The Art of Poetry, Koch offers amusing and thought-provoking essays on the ... Read more
Fonte: Wikipedia. P?ginas: 96. Cap?tulos: Alicia Keys, Jeff Hardy, William Faulkner, Patti Smith, T. S. Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Jim Morrison, Fanny Crosby, Jack Kerouac, Hakim Bey, James Merrill, Charles Bukowski, Maxwell Anderson, Archer Milton Huntington, William Cullen Bryant, Raymond Chandler, Elizabeth Bishop, Walt Whitman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Emily Dickinson, Allen Ginsberg, Stephen Gyllenhaal, William S. Burroughs, Craig Arnold, Moondog, Gregory Corso, Robert Frost, ... Read more
Fuente: Wikipedia. P?ginas: 175. Cap?tulos: Harvey Milk, Seth MacFarlane, José Ram?n Enr?quez, Martina Navratilova, Edward Carpenter, Dan Savage, Ian McKellen, Rosie O'Donnell, Kurt Hiller, Pierre Seel, Lily Tomlin, Margaret Cho, Ari Gold, Colombia Diversa, Barbara Gittings, Carla Antonelli, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Manuel Puig, Massimo Consoli, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Alfred Schuler, Henry Gerber, Ana Mar?a Simo, Luis Antonio de Villena, Max Spohr, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Magnus Hirschfeld, ... Read more
Description For as long as I can remember I have been driven by an inner conflict, the desire to conform on the one hand, the desire to rebel on the other. My struggle with these polar opposites have led me into conflict with organised religion, a recurring theme in my poetry. My influences include Roger McGough, and Allen Ginsberg. Dark humour features in some poems, yet hopefully I'm not cynical, just wise to spurious religion's snares. Perhaps the only place for me where the ... Read more
Fuente: Wikipedia. P?ginas: 130. Cap?tulos: Enciclopedias jud?as, Escritores jud?os, Manuscritos del Mar Muerto, Poetas jud?os, Talmud, Tanaj, Sam Harris, Papiro 7Q5, Serge Gainsbourg, El sue?o de Nabucodonosor, Leonard Cohen, Le?n Trotski, Heinrich Heine, Stefan Zweig, Oliver Stone, Yehudah Halevi, Los gauchos jud?os, Jacobo Fijman, Bor?s Pasternak, Joseph Brodsky, Paul Celan, Karl Kraus, Ibn Gabirol, Lea Goldberg, Séfer Ietzir?, Mascha Kaléko, Canto de los tres j?venes en el horno, Abraham ... Read more
Fuente: Wikipedia. P?ginas: 170. Cap?tulos: Franz Kafka, Ronald Reagan, Lord Byron, Frida Kahlo, Ernesto Guevara, Harry S. Truman, Richard Wagner, Andy Warhol, Fi?dor Dostoyevski, Piotr Ilich Chaikovski, S?ren Kierkegaard, Ana Frank, Kurt Cobain, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Goebbels, Lewis Carroll, Selma Lagerl?f, George Patton, Walter Scott, Thomas Mann, Harriet Arbuthnot, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Joyce Carol Oates, Maria Bashkirtseff, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Anaïs Nin, Cesare Pavese, Alma Mahler, Simone ... Read more
Art and Artists: Poems is a sumptuous collection of visions in verseâ??the work of centuries of poets who have used their own art form to illuminate art created by others.A wide variety of visual art forms have inspired great poetry, from painting, sculpture, and photography to tapestry, folk art, and calligraphy. Included here are poems that celebrate Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, and Grant Wood’s American Gothic. Here are such well-known poems as John Keats’s ... Read more
The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac's On the Road instantly defined a generation upon its publication in 1957: it was, in the words of a New York Times reviewer, "the clearest and most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat.'" Written in the mode of ecstatic improvisation that Allen Ginsberg described as "spontaneous bop prosody," Kerouac's novel remains ... Read more
Digital technology has transformed contemporary culture. New social media, hyperlinks, and cut-and-paste techniques have changed the way we write. E-books, which allow us to carry entire libraries with us, are bringing new browsing and reading habits. Digital editing and other on-the-fly postproduction processes have altered how we make music, films, and visual art. A key rhetorical trope employed in all aspects of digital media is the remix, the creation of innovative new works of visual, ... Read more
The Iovis Trilogy, Anne Waldman's monumental feminist epic, traverses epochs, cultures, and genres to create a visionary call to poetic arms. Iovis details the misdeeds of the Patriarch, and with a fierce imagination queries and subverts his warmongering. All of Waldman's themes come into focus—friendship, motherhood, politics, and Buddhist wisdom. This is epic poetry that goes beyond the old injunction, "to include history"—its effort is to change history.This transformative ... Read more
John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were--in Holmes's words--"Brother Souls." Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way of responding to their experiences in a postwar American society that for them had lost its direction. Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac spontaneously created the term "Beat Generation" to describe this new attitude they felt ... Read more
The 1960s and 1970s represent a rare moment in our cultural history -- music was exploring unprecedented territories, literature was undergoing a radical reinvention, politics polarized the nation, and youth culture was at the zenith of its influence. There has never been, nor is there likely to be, another generation that matches the contributions of the artists of that time period.In this poignant book, journalist Mikal Gilmore weaves a narrative of the '60s and '70s as he examines ... Read more
"Really The Blues" is the story of a white kid who fell in love with black culture, learning to blow clarinet in the reform schools, brothels and honky-tonks of his youth. Drawn by the revelation of the blues, he followed the music along the jazz avenues of Chicago, New Orleans, and New York, and into the heart of America's soul. Told in the jive lingo of the underground's inner circle, this classic is an unforgettable chronicle of street life, smoky clubs, roadhouse dances, and ... Read more
For William Blake, living is creating, conforming is death, and “the imagination . . . is the Human Existence itself.” But why are imagination and creation—so vital for Blake—essential for becoming human? And what is imagination? What is creation? How do we create? Blake had answers for these questions, both in word and in deed, answers that serve as potent teachings for aspiring writers and accomplished ones alike. Eric G. Wilson’s My Business Is to Create emulates Blake, presenting the ... Read more
National Book Critics Circle Award-winner, Minor Characters has deservedly become known among the cognoscenti as a classic about the 1950s, a vivid and compelling memoir of one woman's coming of age amidst the angels and poets of the Beat Generation. The friend and lover of Jack Kerouac during the two years surrounding the publication of On The Road --the book that made him suddenly and forever famous--Johnson describes with penetrating insight the circle of rebellious ... Read more
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