Snapshot poetics : a photographic memoir of the beat era /
Snapshot Poetics contains candid photographs of legendary Beat writers and artists as well as their disciples including Norman Mailer, Lou Reed, Richard Avedon, Kathy Acker, Willem de Kooning, Anne Waldman, and Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtuchenko all accompanied by Ginsberg's quirky handwritten ca...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translation from German edition entitled: Reality sandwiches. |
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San Francisco :
Chronicle Books,
1993.
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| Summary: | Snapshot Poetics contains candid photographs of legendary Beat writers and artists as well as their disciples including Norman Mailer, Lou Reed, Richard Avedon, Kathy Acker, Willem de Kooning, Anne Waldman, and Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtuchenko all accompanied by Ginsberg's quirky handwritten captions. This book is a veritable who's who of the Beat era and the ongoing literary scene it engendered. Ginsberg's classic images re-create the movement in all its glory. -- publisher's statement. |
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| Item Description: | Translation from the German. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is inscribed with a drawing by the author. |
| Physical Description: | 95 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0811803724 9780811803724 |