20th Century American Literature - Post WWII - Literary Criticism, Gay & Lesbian Literary Studies, Gay Men Biographies, Literary Movements - General & Miscellaneous, Portrait Photography - Rich & Famous, U.S. Poets - Literary Biography
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Overview
Allen Ginsberg and Gregory cursor posing naked in tangier timothy leery and Neal Cassidy en route to Millbrook Psychedelic Research Center on Ken Kesey's merry prankster bus Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs in Ginsbergs New York apartment Lawrence Ferlinghetti and his dog Whitman in San Francisco's city lights bookstore these are just a few of the bizarre snapshots of enduring beat era personalities appearing in this remarkable collection by one of the beat movements most celebrated founders poet alien Ginsberg spanning more than three decades from 1953 to 1988 Snapshot Poetics contains candid photographs of legendary beat writers and artists as well as their disciples including Norman Mailer, Lou Reed, Richard Overdone, Kathy Acker, Willem de Kooning, Anne Waldman, and Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtuchenko all accompanied by gins bergs quirky handwritten captions a veritable whos who of the beat era and the ongoing literary scene it engendered gins bergs classic images re-create the movement in all its gloryEditorials
Booknews
A glorious collection of some 70 remarkable photographs of Beat writers and personalities taken by Ginsberg between 1953 and 1991 in venues from San Francisco to New York to Tangier. Originally published in Germany and re-edited for the present edition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
September 1, 1994
Publisher
San Francisco, CA : Chronicle Books, 1993.
Pages
96
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780811803724