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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties

Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties

Ball, Gordon
Ginsberg, Allen

Paperback

Literary Figures

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0802133479
ISBN13: 9780802133472
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Jan 12 1994
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.08 Depth: 8.97
Language: English

Ginsberg has been one of the most influential poets in American in our time. . . . It has been a spectacular career, and . . . the thinking that went into making it is recorded in these Journals. --The New York Times Book Review

In the 1950s and early 1960s, Allen Ginsberg and his fellow Beats led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. Collected here are journal entries culed from eighteen notebooks that Ginsberg kept during this extraordinary period--thoughts, poems, dreams, reflections, and diary notes that intimately illuminate Ginsberg's actual travels and his mental journeys. They reveal a remarkable and fascinating life: conversations with William Carlos Williams; drug experiences; a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas; stays in Mexico, San Francisco, and New York; first impressions of Naked Lunch; bits and peices of America, Kaddish and other poems; political ravings; and, of course, times with William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Gergory Corso, Herbert Huncke, Peter Orlovsky, and many, many others. What emerges is a truly unique personal account that will touch the mind and the soul.

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