Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus
Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus

Author: Lisa Jarnot

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2012-08-27

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 0520951948

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This definitive biography gives a brilliant account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919–1988), one of America’s great postwar poets. Lisa Jarnot takes us from Duncan’s birth in Oakland, California, through his childhood in an eccentrically Theosophist household, to his life in San Francisco as an openly gay man who became an inspirational figure for the many poets and painters who gathered around him. Weaving together quotations from Duncan’s notebooks and interviews with those who knew him, Jarnot vividly describes his life on the West Coast and in New York City and his encounters with luminaries such as Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Paul Goodman, Michael McClure, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, and Charles Olson.

I Celebrate Myself
I Celebrate Myself

Author: Bill Morgan

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-09-25

Total Pages: 724

ISBN-13: 9780143112495

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In the first biography of Ginsberg since his death in 1997 and the only one to cover the entire span of his life, Ginsberg's archivist Bill Morgan draws on his deep knowledge of Ginsberg's largely unpublished private journals to give readers an unparalleled and finely detailed portrait of one of America's most famous poets. Morgan sheds new light on some of the pivotal aspects of Ginsberg's life, including the poet's associations with other members of the Beat Generation, his complex relationship with his lifelong partner, Peter Orlovsky, his involvement with Tibetan Buddhism, and above all his genius for living.

Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs
Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs

Author: Ted Morgan

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2012-07-31

Total Pages: 753

ISBN-13: 0393343243

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“Almost indecently readable . . . captures [Burroughs’s] destructive energy, his ferocious pessimism, and the renegade brilliance of his style.”—Vogue With a new preface as well as a final chapter on William S. Burroughs’s last years, the acclaimed Literary Outlaw is the only existing full biography of an extraordinary figure. Anarchist, heroin addict, alcoholic, and brilliant writer, Burroughs was the patron saint of the Beats. His avant-garde masterpiece Naked Lunch shook up the literary world with its graphic descriptions of drug abuse and illicit sex—and resulted in a landmark Supreme Court ruling on obscenity. Burroughs continued to revolutionize literature with novels like The Soft Machine and to shock with the events in his life, such as the accidental shooting of his wife, which haunted him until his death. Ted Morgan captures the man, his work, and his friends—Allen Ginsberg and Paul Bowles among them—in this riveting story of an iconoclast.

Beat Culture
Beat Culture

Author: William T. Lawlor

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2005-05-20

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1851094059

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The coverage of this book ranges from Jack Kerouac's tales of freedom-seeking Bohemian youth to the frenetic paintings of Jackson Pollock, including 60 years of the Beat Generation and the artists of the Age of Spontaneity. Beat Culture captures in a single volume six decades of cultural and countercultural expression in the arts and society. It goes beyond other works, which are often limited to Beat writers like William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, and Michael McClure, to cover a wide range of musicians, painters, dramatists, filmmakers, and dancers who found expression in the Bohemian movement known as the Beat Generation. Top scholars from the United States, England, Holland, Italy, and China analyze a vast array of topics including sexism, misogny, alcoholism, and drug abuse within Beat circles; the arrest of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti on obscenity charges; Beat dress and speech; and the Beat "pad." Through more than 250 entries, which travel from New York to New Orleans, from San Francisco to Mexico City, students, scholars, and those interested in popular culture will taste the era's rampant freedom and experimentation, explore the impact of jazz on Beat writings, and discover how Beat behavior signaled events such as the sexual revolution, the peace movement, and environmental awareness.

Are Italians White?
Are Italians White?

Author: Jennifer Guglielmo

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0415934508

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Privileged Moments
Privileged Moments

Author: Jeffrey Meyers

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780299169442

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One of the most critically acclaimed biographers working today, Jeffrey Meyers offers in Privileged Moments a window into the work of both creative writers and their biographers. Describing these portraits -- of Allen Ginsberg, James Dickey, Ed Dorn, Arthur Miller, Iris Murdoch, V. S. Naipaul, Francis King, and J. F. Powers -- Meyers writes, "I wanted to learn everything about their lives, what they looked like, how they lived, what they said. I was most curious about the creative process, the relation between authors' lives and their art, the public image and the real self".Meyers himself becomes the ninth writer encountered in Privileged Moments, displaying the master biographer's sharp eye for telling details. In lively and compelling style, he offers us insights into the writers' lives: their reactions to criticism; how they advanced their careers and achieved fame; how feuds and quarrels started and ended; their struggles with money, illness, marriages, and love affairs. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Ed Dorn Live
Ed Dorn Live

Author: Edward Dorn

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780472068623

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Collects the commentary of the later years and last days of one of America's most powerful and unique poets

Contemporary Poets
Contemporary Poets

Author: Thomas Riggs

Publisher: Detroit, MI : St. James Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 1368

ISBN-13:

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This reference work combines bibliographical, biographical and critical information on 900 living poets writing in the English language. Entries are arranged alphabetically, and this edition includes 120 new entrants, including Wendy Cope, Benjamin Zephaniah and Rachel McAlpine.