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mining the personal archive of Allen Ginsberg
256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm. + 1 booklet in pocket.
A prolific poet, raconteur, activist and thinker, Allen Ginsberg was also a prolific collector, meticulously saving letters, postcards, draft notes and manuscripts, photographs and snapshots, appearance bills and rally broadsheets, not only featuring him personally, but also his fellow poets, singers, lovers, writers, journey companions, friends and agitators. Gathered here publicly for the first time is his personal archive of events and experiences documenting his life as a young man, breakaway poet, expansive spirit, curious intellectual traveler and relentless enthusiast of the provocative and the profane.
Foreword / Anne Waldman -- Introduction / Pat Thomas -- 1943-46: Columbia -- 1946: Merchant marine; Columbia again -- "Towel" (parody of Howl) / Terry Southern -- 1959: Allen's career explodes; Kaddish -- 1960-1: South America; Yage; New York; Paris; Morocco -- 1962: India; Japan -- The congress on the dialectics of liberation / Pat Thomas -- 1968-69: Wales visitation; Chicago; Fall of America continues -- Chicago '68 / Pat Thomas -- Hippies try to merge with the White Panthers / Pat Thomas -- 1972-76: Mind breaths; Naropa poetry; Rotterdam; England; Trungpa; Father Death -- 1977-83: Naropa; Punk rock class; European tours; Kerouac conference -- Ginsberg and The Clash / Pat Thomas -- The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and the yippies / Pat Thomas -- Ginsberg as a recording poet and singing bard / Pat Thomas -- Ginsberg discusses Kerouac's influence on rock music / Pat Thomas -- 1950-53: Mexico; NYC -- 1954: Burroughs; Junky; Mexico; San Francisco -- 1955-56: San Francisco; Howl -- 1957-58: Morocco; Europe; Paris -- 1963-64: Vancouver; North America; San Francisco; Kesey -- 1965: Iron Curtain; London -- 1965: Dylan, Ginsberg, Jerry Rubin / Pat Thomas -- 1965-67: Fall of America: Beginning of a Poem of These States; The Vortex -- Must be the season of the witch (female yippies) / Pat Thomas -- 1970-71: Blake; Jessore Road; First Blues -- Phone call between Henry Kissinger and Ginsberg / Pat Thomas -- Calcutta street scenes, September 1971: Allen Ginsberg, Wynn Chamberlain, John Giorno / Pat Thomas -- 1984-88: China; Russia; Israel; Collected Poems & White Shroud; Professor Ginsberg -- 1989-94: The Lion For Real; Holy Soul Jelly Roll; Cosmopolitan; Greetings -- 1995-97: The Loft; Knitting Factory; Europe; Death -- Music; Recordings.
"Includes a 32-page booklet of all previously unpublished Ginsberg "First Thoughts, Best Thoughts-notes to self: naked and authentic October 1974-January 1975" including unseen poems, journal entries, and thoughts on Dylan's 'Idiot Wind'"--Page [4] of cover.