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Informationen zum Autor David Stephen Calonne is the author of William Saroyan: My Real Work Is Being (1983), Bebop Buddhist Ecstasy: Saroyan's Influence on Kerouac and the Beats (2010), with an Introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; and literary biographies of Charles Bukowski and Henry Miller. He has also edited several volumes of fiction and essays by Bukowski. Calonne has lectured at the European University in Florence; Columbia University, New York; University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University, Massachusetts; and the University of Oxford, and has taught at the University of Texas, the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago. He presently lives in Ann Arbor and teaches at Eastern Michigan University. Klappentext The first comprehensive study to explore the role of esoteric, occult, alchemical, shamanistic, mystical and magical traditions in the work of major Beat authors. Zusammenfassung The first comprehensive study to explore the role of esoteric! occult! alchemical! shamanistic! mystical and magical traditions in the work of major Beat authors. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. San Francisco Renaissance: Kenneth Rexroth and Robert Duncan; 2. Visionary poiesis, hidden religions: Diane di Prima; 3. In the search for meaning, in reaching for the pure relation: Bob Kaufman; 4. American road, Buddha Path: Jack Kerouac; 5. Cosmic vibration breakthrough: Allen Ginsberg; 6. Nothing is true, everything is permitted: William S. Burroughs; 7. An astrologer dabbling in dragon prose: Gregory Corso; 8. Nothing but the marvelous: Philip Lamantia; 9. Exaltations, highs and strange knowledges: Philip Whalen; 10. Mountains and rivers without end: Gary Snyder.
