Author: David S. Wills
Publisher: Beatdom Books
ISBN: 9780993409967
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Allen Ginsberg visited sixty-six countries during his lifetime. He travelled to see the world, but each time he went abroad, he came back changed. These changes built up his personality and poetic style, essentially creating the man the world came to know during the 1960s - the world's most famous living poet and all-round peace icon. Travel was not just a passion; it was essential to his development as a poet and activist. His most famous poems were products of travel and his core beliefs - from free love to world peace - were ones found while wandering through the wider world. In this book, David S. Wills tells the story of Allen Ginsberg's life through the prism of travel.
World Citizen: Allen Ginsberg as Traveller
Author: David S. Wills
Publisher: Beatdom Books
ISBN: 9780993409967
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Allen Ginsberg visited sixty-six countries during his lifetime. He travelled to see the world, but each time he went abroad, he came back changed. These changes built up his personality and poetic style, essentially creating the man the world came to know during the 1960s - the world's most famous living poet and all-round peace icon. Travel was not just a passion; it was essential to his development as a poet and activist. His most famous poems were products of travel and his core beliefs - from free love to world peace - were ones found while wandering through the wider world. In this book, David S. Wills tells the story of Allen Ginsberg's life through the prism of travel.
Publisher: Beatdom Books
ISBN: 9780993409967
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Allen Ginsberg visited sixty-six countries during his lifetime. He travelled to see the world, but each time he went abroad, he came back changed. These changes built up his personality and poetic style, essentially creating the man the world came to know during the 1960s - the world's most famous living poet and all-round peace icon. Travel was not just a passion; it was essential to his development as a poet and activist. His most famous poems were products of travel and his core beliefs - from free love to world peace - were ones found while wandering through the wider world. In this book, David S. Wills tells the story of Allen Ginsberg's life through the prism of travel.
The Beats in Mexico
Author: David Stephen Calonne
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 197882873X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Mexico features prominently in the literature and personal legends of the Beat writers, from its depiction as an extension of the American frontier in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road to its role as a refuge for writers with criminal pasts like William S. Burroughs. Yet the story of Beat literature and Mexico takes us beyond the movement’s superstars to consider the important roles played by lesser-known female Beat writers. The first book-length study of why the Beats were so fascinated by Mexico and how they represented its culture in their work, this volume examines such canonical figures as Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Lamantia, McClure, and Ferlinghetti. It also devotes individual chapters to women such as Margaret Randall, Bonnie Bremser, and Joanne Kyger, who each made Mexico a central setting of their work and interrogated the misogyny they encountered in both American and Mexican culture. The Beats in Mexico not only considers individual Beat writers, but also places them within a larger history of countercultural figures, from D.H. Lawrence to Antonin Artaud to Jim Morrison, who mythologized Mexico as the land of the Aztecs and Maya, where shamanism and psychotropic drugs could take you on a trip far beyond the limits of the American imagination.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 197882873X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Mexico features prominently in the literature and personal legends of the Beat writers, from its depiction as an extension of the American frontier in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road to its role as a refuge for writers with criminal pasts like William S. Burroughs. Yet the story of Beat literature and Mexico takes us beyond the movement’s superstars to consider the important roles played by lesser-known female Beat writers. The first book-length study of why the Beats were so fascinated by Mexico and how they represented its culture in their work, this volume examines such canonical figures as Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Lamantia, McClure, and Ferlinghetti. It also devotes individual chapters to women such as Margaret Randall, Bonnie Bremser, and Joanne Kyger, who each made Mexico a central setting of their work and interrogated the misogyny they encountered in both American and Mexican culture. The Beats in Mexico not only considers individual Beat writers, but also places them within a larger history of countercultural figures, from D.H. Lawrence to Antonin Artaud to Jim Morrison, who mythologized Mexico as the land of the Aztecs and Maya, where shamanism and psychotropic drugs could take you on a trip far beyond the limits of the American imagination.
Beatdom
Author: David Wills
Publisher: David Wills
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Beatdom is a magazine for all fans of Beat Generation literature. This is the very first issue of Beatdom, containing interviews with Barry Gifford, Paul Krassner, Ken Babbs and Zane Kesey. We also have a talented group of writers and photographers, who have put together a magazine with features relating the Beat Generation to Buddhism, Bob Dylan, Hunter S Thompson and Walt Whitman; and guides to Beat books, websites and stories.
Publisher: David Wills
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Beatdom is a magazine for all fans of Beat Generation literature. This is the very first issue of Beatdom, containing interviews with Barry Gifford, Paul Krassner, Ken Babbs and Zane Kesey. We also have a talented group of writers and photographers, who have put together a magazine with features relating the Beat Generation to Buddhism, Bob Dylan, Hunter S Thompson and Walt Whitman; and guides to Beat books, websites and stories.
William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century
Author: Joan Hawkins
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253041368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
This definitive book on Burroughs’ decades-long cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century, including previously unpublished works. William S. Burroughs’s Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded) remains the best-known of his textual cut-up creations, but he committed more than a decade of his life to searching out multimedia for use in works of collage. By cutting up, folding in, and splicing together newspapers, magazines, letters, book reviews, classical literature, audio recordings, photographs, and films, Burroughs created an eclectic and wide-ranging countercultural archive. This collection includes previously unpublished work by Burroughs such as cut-ups of work written by his son, cut-ups of critical responses to his own work, collages on the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, excerpts from his dream journals, and some of the few diary entries that Burroughs wrote about his wife, Joan. William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century also features original essays, interviews, and discussions by established Burroughs scholars, respected artists, and people who encountered Burroughs. The essays consider Burroughs from a range of perspectives—literary studies, media studies, popular culture, gender studies, post-colonialism, history, and geography. “A landmark in scholarship.” —Choice
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253041368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
This definitive book on Burroughs’ decades-long cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century, including previously unpublished works. William S. Burroughs’s Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded) remains the best-known of his textual cut-up creations, but he committed more than a decade of his life to searching out multimedia for use in works of collage. By cutting up, folding in, and splicing together newspapers, magazines, letters, book reviews, classical literature, audio recordings, photographs, and films, Burroughs created an eclectic and wide-ranging countercultural archive. This collection includes previously unpublished work by Burroughs such as cut-ups of work written by his son, cut-ups of critical responses to his own work, collages on the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, excerpts from his dream journals, and some of the few diary entries that Burroughs wrote about his wife, Joan. William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century also features original essays, interviews, and discussions by established Burroughs scholars, respected artists, and people who encountered Burroughs. The essays consider Burroughs from a range of perspectives—literary studies, media studies, popular culture, gender studies, post-colonialism, history, and geography. “A landmark in scholarship.” —Choice
The Dark End of the Street
Author: Maria Damon
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452900650
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452900650
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
High White Notes
Author: DAVID S. WILLS
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993409981
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
High White Notes is the first in-depth analysis of the complete writings of Hunter S. Thompson, whose Gonzo journalism was an odd fusion of fact and fiction that garnered widespread adoration but perhaps for all the wrong reasons.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993409981
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
High White Notes is the first in-depth analysis of the complete writings of Hunter S. Thompson, whose Gonzo journalism was an odd fusion of fact and fiction that garnered widespread adoration but perhaps for all the wrong reasons.
Indian Journals
Author: Allen Ginsberg
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802196888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Allan Ginsberg was the leading poet and conscience of the Beat generation. Indian Journals collects Ginsberg’s writings from his trip to India in 1962–63.
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802196888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Allan Ginsberg was the leading poet and conscience of the Beat generation. Indian Journals collects Ginsberg’s writings from his trip to India in 1962–63.
Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue
Author: Paul Bowles
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786256800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
In the nineteenth century there flourished a peculiar breed of Englishmen—often the second sons of the aristocracy, or ambitious men from a lower class—who as soldiers, consuls and tea planters, were largely responsible for making England a great colonial power. Save for the fact that he is a staunch anticolonialist, Paul Bowles resembles these men in many respects. Like them, he appears to be happiest away from civilization as we know it; like them, he thrives when the traveling is hardest, the food ghastly or infrequent, water scarce, heat intolerable, or mosquitoes abundant. This engaging collection of eight travel essays by the author of such noted fiction as The Sheltering Sky and The Delicate Prey deals largely with places in the world that few Westerners have ever heard of, much less seen—places as yet unencumbered by the trappings, luxuries, and corruptions of modern civilization. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with remote spots in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Mohammedan worlds. The author is a sympathetic and discerning interpreter of these alien cultures, and his eyes and ears are especially alert both to what is bizarre and what is wise in the civilizations in which he settles. He is also acutely aware of the transitions occurring on the fringes of many of these regions, and he is disturbed and indignant about the corrosive effect of Western culture on the non-Christian way of life. Above all, however, Paul Bowles is a superb and observant traveler—born wanderer who finds pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships matter-of-factly and with humor. These essays provide us with Paul Bowles’s characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786256800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
In the nineteenth century there flourished a peculiar breed of Englishmen—often the second sons of the aristocracy, or ambitious men from a lower class—who as soldiers, consuls and tea planters, were largely responsible for making England a great colonial power. Save for the fact that he is a staunch anticolonialist, Paul Bowles resembles these men in many respects. Like them, he appears to be happiest away from civilization as we know it; like them, he thrives when the traveling is hardest, the food ghastly or infrequent, water scarce, heat intolerable, or mosquitoes abundant. This engaging collection of eight travel essays by the author of such noted fiction as The Sheltering Sky and The Delicate Prey deals largely with places in the world that few Westerners have ever heard of, much less seen—places as yet unencumbered by the trappings, luxuries, and corruptions of modern civilization. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with remote spots in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Mohammedan worlds. The author is a sympathetic and discerning interpreter of these alien cultures, and his eyes and ears are especially alert both to what is bizarre and what is wise in the civilizations in which he settles. He is also acutely aware of the transitions occurring on the fringes of many of these regions, and he is disturbed and indignant about the corrosive effect of Western culture on the non-Christian way of life. Above all, however, Paul Bowles is a superb and observant traveler—born wanderer who finds pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships matter-of-factly and with humor. These essays provide us with Paul Bowles’s characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.
The Dog Farm
Author: David S. Wills
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956952516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
For thousands of young Westerners, South Korea is an escape from reality. It is a place where money is easy and booze is cheap. By day they toil in crooked cram-schools, teaching the peninsula's violent, video game-obsessed youth. At night they cut loose and embrace Korea's famous drinking culture. Among these disaffected young teachers is Alexander. Young, naive and a little drunker than most, he is struggling to cope with life on the "wrong side of the world." In The Dog Farm we follow Alex from girl to girl, beer to beer, across Korea, to Japan, and back again, in an unlikely love story. "The heartfelt cavorting of Jack Kerouac across America is recalled in The Dog Farm." - 10 Magazine "Hunter S. Thompson would've been proud. The Dog Farm is much like a gin and tonic - a bit too bitter for some and just what the doctor ordered for others." - Chris in South Korea "Wills' text remains an entertaining novel throughout, particularly for readers with experience living and/or working in South Korea. Alexander's descriptions of day-to-day life for an expat in Korea will ring true to moments we have all experienced. I found the novel triggering memories that left me nodding in agreement... In addition, Wills' prose is fluid and easy to read - a great achievement for his first piece of long-form fiction. I will certainly be seeking out his future work." - Daegu Compass
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956952516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
For thousands of young Westerners, South Korea is an escape from reality. It is a place where money is easy and booze is cheap. By day they toil in crooked cram-schools, teaching the peninsula's violent, video game-obsessed youth. At night they cut loose and embrace Korea's famous drinking culture. Among these disaffected young teachers is Alexander. Young, naive and a little drunker than most, he is struggling to cope with life on the "wrong side of the world." In The Dog Farm we follow Alex from girl to girl, beer to beer, across Korea, to Japan, and back again, in an unlikely love story. "The heartfelt cavorting of Jack Kerouac across America is recalled in The Dog Farm." - 10 Magazine "Hunter S. Thompson would've been proud. The Dog Farm is much like a gin and tonic - a bit too bitter for some and just what the doctor ordered for others." - Chris in South Korea "Wills' text remains an entertaining novel throughout, particularly for readers with experience living and/or working in South Korea. Alexander's descriptions of day-to-day life for an expat in Korea will ring true to moments we have all experienced. I found the novel triggering memories that left me nodding in agreement... In addition, Wills' prose is fluid and easy to read - a great achievement for his first piece of long-form fiction. I will certainly be seeking out his future work." - Daegu Compass
Poetry and Cultural Studies
Author: Maria Damon
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252076087
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
A collection of critical texts exploring poetry's engagement with the social
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252076087
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
A collection of critical texts exploring poetry's engagement with the social