Further Details Title: First Thought Condition: New Subtitle: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg ISBN-10: 0816699178 EAN: 9780816699179 ISBN: 9780816699179 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Format: Paperback Release Date: 03/14/2017 Description: “The way to point to the existence of the universe is to see one thing directly and clearly and describe it. . . . If you see something as a symbol of something else, then you don't experience the object itself, but you're always referring it to something else in your mind. It's like making out with one person and thinking about another.” —Ginsberg speaking to his writing class at Naropa Institute, 1985 With “Howl” Allen Ginsberg became the voice of the Beat Generation. It was a voice heard in some of the best-known poetry of our time—but also in Ginsberg’s eloquent and extensive commentary on literature, consciousness, and politics, as well as his own work. Much of what he had to say, he said in interviews, and many of the best of these are collected for the first time in this book. Here we encounter Ginsberg elaborating on how speech, as much as writing and reading, and even poetry, is an act of art. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee on LSD in 1966; gently pressing an emotionally broken Ezra Pound in a Venice pensione in 1967; taking questions in a U.C. Davis dormitory lobby after a visit to Vacaville State Prison in 1974; speaking at length on poetics, and in detail about his “Blake Visions,” with his father Louis (also a poet); engaging William Burroughs and Norman Mailer during a writing class: Ginsberg speaks with remarkable candor, insight, and erudition about reading and writing, music and fame, literary friendships and influences, and, of course, the culture (or counterculture) and politics of his generation. Revealing, enlightening, and often just plain entertaining, Allen Ginsberg in conversation is the quintessential twentieth-century American poet as we have never before encountered him: fully present, in pitch-perfect detail. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 210mm Item Length: 140mm Item Width: 38mm Contributor: Michael Schumacher (Edited by) Author: Michael Schumacher Genre: Biography Topic: Literary Criticism Release Year: 2017 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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- Author: Michael Schumacher
- Book Title: First Thought : Conversations with Allen Ginsberg
- Contributor: Michael Schumacher (Edited by)
- Country/Region of Manufacture: US
- EAN: 9780816699179
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Genre: Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
- ISBN: 9780816699179
- ISBN-10: 0816699178
- Item Height: 1.5 in
- Item Length: 8.2 in
- Item Weight: 11.3 Oz
- Item Width: 5.5 in
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 264 Pages
- Publication Name: First Thought
- Publication Year: 2017
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- Release Date: 03/14/2017
- Release Year: 2017
- Subtitle: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg
- Title: First Thought
- Topic: Poetry, Literary, American / General
- gtin13: 9780816699179