Spontaneous Mind - Selected Interviews 1958-1996

Zusatztext "Ginsberg's verbal dexterity is such that he never gets hemmed in by people who would rather have him easily pegged." Informationen zum Autor Allen Ginsberg was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926, and died in New York City in 1997. Klappentext From his conversation with the conservative William F. Buckley on PBS to his testimony at the Chicago Seven trial to his passionate riffs on Cezanne, Blake, Whitman, and Pound, the interviews collected in Spontaneous Mind, chronologically arranged and in some cases previously unpublished, were conducted throughout Allen Ginsberg's long career. From the late 1950s to the mid-1990s, Ginsberg speaks frankly about his life, his work, and major events, allowing us to hear once again the impassioned voice of one of the most influential literary and cultural figures of our time. Zusammenfassung From his conversation with the conservative William F. Buckley on PBS to his testimony at the Chicago Seven trial to his passionate riffs on Cezanne! Blake! Whitman! and Pound! the interviews collected in Spontaneous Mind ! chronologically arranged and in some cases previously unpublished! were conducted throughout Allen Ginsberg's long career. From the late 1950s to the mid-1990s! Ginsberg speaks frankly about his life! his work! and major events! allowing us to hear once again the impassioned voice of one of the most influential literary and cultural figures of our time.

Product details

• Authors: Allen Ginsberg
• Assisted by: David Carter (Editor)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.03.2002
• EAN: 9780060930820
• ISBN: 978-0-06-093082-0
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, JEWISH STUDIES: LITERATURE, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Political, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: General, POETRY: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Indigenous, HUMOR: Topic / Regional & Cultural