I Celebrate Myself [Sale Edition]
The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg
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| Author(s) : Morgan, Bill |
| Publishers Price : £19.99 |
| Wisdom Price : £5.00(save 75%)
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| ISBN : 0670037966 | | EAN : 9780670037964 | | Cover : Hardback | | Pages : 702 | | Size : 242 x 166mm | | Publisher : Viking | | Published : 2006 |
Category : Biography
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Synopsis:
An extensive biography of Allen Ginsberg, one of America's most famous poets, drawing on the author's deep knowledge of Ginsberg's largely unpublished private journals. Morgan sheds new light on some of the pivotal moments of Ginsberg's life - his years at Columbia university when he met Kerouac and William Burroughs; his visions of William Blake in Harlem; his vow with Neal Cassady at an Oklahoma crossroads in 1947, his journeys to Mexico, South America, and India. He also provides a more complete picture than previously told of Ginsberg's complex relationship with hsi partner, Peter Orlovsky, and of his involvement with Tibetan Buddhism.
"No other biographer has given us such a totally straight three-dimensional picture of Allen Ginsberg." Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author.
"The intensity, urgency, and joy in which Allen lived his life are found in these pages. Magnificent !" Philip Glass.
"If you wanted to be a poet in the 1960s, whether you were from Kansas or from Transylvania, you had to know that the bardic voice of Allen Ginsberg was calling profoundly to your best self, bathing your inchoate urgings in benevolent love and urgent social exigency. Allen's life was also poetry and his presence illuminated and influenced profoundly all those who met him. Those who knew him well knew also that he suffered and that he was human. Bill Morgan, who did know him well, has written an inspired epic of Allen Ginsberg's life, an essential work that magnetizes a huge body of anecdote and research. This "somewhat private life" celebrates the complexity of the man and the reach of his poetry with compassion and deep understanding." Andrei Codrescu, author. |
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