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Michael Schumacher is author of the acclaimed biography of Allen Ginsberg, Dharma Lion, and editor of The Essential Ginsberg. His books Torn in Two: The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell and One Man’s Survival on the Open Sea, November’s Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913, Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and Mr. Basketball: George Mikan, the Minneapolis Lakers, and the Birth of the NBA are also published by Minnesota.
List of contents
Contents
Introduction: Ginsberg’s Visions of Ordinary Mind
Michael Schumacher
Portrait of a Beat
Al Aronowitz, 1960
Ginsberg Makes the World Scene
Richard Kostalanetz, 1965
Ginsberg in Washington: Lobbying for Tenderness
Don McNeill, 1966
A Conversation between Ezra Pound and Allen Ginsberg
Michael Reck, 1968
Identity Gossip
Gordon Ball, 1974
A Conversation with Allen Ginsberg
John Tytell, 1974
An Interview with Allen Ginsberg
James McKenzie, 1978
Slice of Reality Life
Stephen M. H. Braitman, 1974
Visions of Ordinary Mind (1948–1955): Discourse, with Questions and Answers, June 9, 1976
Paul Portuges, 1976
Allen Ginsberg Talks about Poetry
Kenneth Koch, 1977
Words and Music, Music, Music
Mitchell Feldman, 1982
William Burroughs, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg: How to Notice What You Notice, How to Write a Bestseller, How to Not Solve a Crime in America
Allen Ginsberg, 1985
Dreams, Reconciliations, and “Spots of Time”: An Interview with Allen Ginsberg
Michael Schumacher, 1986
No More Bagels: An Interview with Allen Ginsberg
Steve Silberman, 1987
Ginsberg Accuses Neo-Conservatives of Political Correctness
Kathleen O’Toole, 1995
A Conversation with Allen Ginsberg
Tom McIntyre, 1995
The Beats and the Boom: A Conversation with Allen Ginsberg
Seth Goddard, 1995
Allen Ginsberg: An Interview
Gary Pacernick, 1997
Chronology
Books by Allen Ginsberg
About the author
Michael Schumacher is author of the acclaimed biography of Allen Ginsberg, Dharma Lion, and editor of The Essential Ginsberg. His books Torn in Two: The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell and One Man’s Survival on the Open Sea, November’s Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913, Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and Mr. Basketball: George Mikan, the Minneapolis Lakers, and the Birth of the NBA are also published by Minnesota.
Summary
The Beat Generation's best-known poet, in previously uncollected interviews, on reading and writing, poetry and politics
