The best minds of my generation : a literary history of the Beats / Allen Ginsberg ; with a foreword...
The best minds of my generation : a literary history of the Beats / Allen Ginsberg ; with a foreword...
The best minds of my generation : a literary history of the Beats / Allen Ginsberg ; with a foreword by Anne Waldman ; edited by Bill Morgan.
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New York : Grove Press, 2017.
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G 2017/6100
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English
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Physical content
xxviii, 460 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Foreword / by Anne Waldman -- Editor's preface -- A definition of the Beat Generation / by Allen Ginsberg -- 1. Course overview -- 2. Kerouac's "Origins of the Beat Generation" -- 3. Reading list -- 4. Visions -- 5. Jazz, bebop, and music -- 6. Music, Kerouac, Wyse, and Newman -- 7. Times Square and...
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Publisher
New York : Grove Press, 2017.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2017.
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"In the summer of 1977, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. This was twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem "Howl," and Jack Kerouac's seminal book On the Road. Through the creation of this course, which he ended up teaching five times, first at the Naropa Institute a...
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The best minds of my generation : a literary history of the Beats / Allen Ginsberg ; with a foreword by Anne Waldman ; edited by Bill Morgan.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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G 2017/6100
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74VKVgBpmqWd
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ISBN
0802126499 (hardback)
9780802126498 (hardback)
DDC
810.90054
MMS ID
991024148807202626
