Dharma Lion A Critical Biography of Allen Ginsberg by Michael Schumacher 1992 St. Martin's Press Hardcover with plastic protected dust jacket 6 1/2 inches by 9 1/2 inches 769 pages. Retired library book with usual library markings. Front endpaper is missing. No writing, tears or highlighting. (from the dust jacket) Perhaps no poet in the history of America, with the exception of Walt Whitman, has so dominated the popular imagination as has Allen Ginsberg. From the close of World War II to the end of the Cold War, Ginsberg has been in the vanguard of every popular movement; from the emergence of the Beat Generation in the Fifties to the hippie and antiwar movements of the the sixties, to the ecology movement and the Buddhist revival of the seventies, Allen Ginsberg has given voice to his generation's spirit in poetry of astonishing power. Michael Schumacher has spent eight years researching and writing this dramatic biography, with Ginsberg's full cooperation and with access to all his journals and papers, as well as spending thousands of hours interviewing Ginsberg's friends and enemies alike. With the sweep of an epic a novel Schumacher tells the story of this quintessentially American poet and his times, with fascinating portraits of such contemporaries as Jack Kerouac , Neal Cassady , and William Burroughs , among many others, along with many rarely seen photographs. This is undoubtedly the most complete portrait we are ever likely to see of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Michael Schumacher has written numerous articles and interviews with literary figures that have been widely published. The author of Reasons to Believe (St. Martin's Press, 1988) and Creative Conversations (Writer's Digest, 1990), he lives in Wisconsin. . Please let me know if pictures do not load properly or if anything else should be added to this listing. Any questions, please ask. Thanks for looking!
Specifics
- Author: Michael Schumacher
- Book Title: Dharma Lion : a Biography of Allen Ginsberg
- Format: Hardcover
- Genre: Literary Criticism
- ISBN: 9780312081799
- Illustrator: Yes
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 752 Pages
- Publication Year: 1992
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Seller Notes: “Please read complete description and examine scan. Thanks!”
- Special Attributes: Ex-Library
- Topic: Poetry
- Type: Biography
- gtin13: 9780312081799