Screaming With Joy: The Life of Allen Ginsberg - Rilegato

Caveney, Graham

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ISBN 10: 0767902785 ISBN 13: 9780767902786

Casa editrice: Broadway Books, 1999

Riassunto

Surveys the life of the beat poet who wrote about sexual freedom, pacifism, drug experimentation, and the need to resist censorship

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Informazioni sull?autore

Graham Caveney is the author of <b>Gentleman Junkie: A Biography of William Burroughs</b> and the coauthor of <b>Shopping in Space</b>, a report on the American brat-pack writers.

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lly illustrated tribute to Allen Ginsberg--the best-known American poet of the post-war generation, mother of the Beats, and walking embodiment of Western counterculture.<br><br>Ginsberg's poetry, influenced by the writings of Walt Whitman and the spontaneous prose of his friend Jack Kerouac, is open, forthright, didactic, and written fast without revision. Much of his writing has a raw, confessional quality appropriate to his roles as one of the first gay spokespeople and a leading anti-Vietnam War activist.<br><br>From the publication of his first book, <b>Howl and Other Poems</b>, in 1956, Ginsberg became known as the champion of counterculture concerns: sexual freedom, pacifism, drug experimentation, opposition to censorship and authority, and acceptance of Eastern religions. The youngest of the Beat writers, Ginsberg was a lover to both William Burroughs and Kerouac and acted as the prophet and public face of the group--serving as Kerouac's unofficial agent for <b>On the Road

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Broadway Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0767902785
• ISBN 13: 9780767902786
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 216
• Redattore: Behar Tracy
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