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Snapshot Poetics: Allen Ginsberg's Photographic Memoir of the Beat Era

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by: Allen Ginsberg See Larger Image Price: $16.41 as of 12/14/2009 10:50 EST Used Price: $2.52 Collectible Price: $25.00 Third Party New Price: $16.41 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 810.90054 EAN: 9780811803724 ISBN: 0811803724 Label: Chronicle Books Manufacturer: Chronicle Books Number Of Pages: 96 Publication Date: October 01, 1993 Publisher: Chronicle Books Studio: Chronicle Books Related Items: Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) Allen Ginsberg Photographs The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (Deluxe Two-Disc Set) The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937-1952 see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: allen ginsberg and gregory corso posing naked in tangier timothy leery and neal cassady en route to millbrook psychedelic research center on ken keseys merry prankster bus jack kerouac and william burroughs in ginsbergs new york apartment lawrence ferlinghetti and his dog whitman in san franciscos city lights bookstore these are just a few of the bizarre snapshots of enduring beat era personalities appearing in this remarkable collection by one of the beat movements most celebrated founders poet alien ginsberg spanning more than three decades from 1953 to 1988 Snapshot Poetics contains candid photographs of legendary beat writers and artists as well as their disciples including norman mailer lou reed richard avedon kathy acker willem de kooning anne waldman and russian poet yevgeny yevtuchenko all accompanied by ginsbergs quirky handwritten captions a veritable whos who of the beat era and the ongoing literary scene it engendered ginsbergs classic images re-create the movement in all its glory Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - nice album Ginsberg's on-and-off fascination with photography left some intimate records of the lives around him. We see a slim and young full-mopped Ginsberg, smiling on a ship "smoking what," and candid shots of Burroughs, Kerouac, and other less famous Beats as they interacted with each other. You will find that there's much more to the camaraderie of these guys than just trying to get laid (re: the other review). Rating: - nice album Ginsberg's on-and-off fascination with photography left some nice intimate records of the lives around him. We see a slim and young full-mopped Ginsberg, seen smiling on a ship "smoking what," and candid shots of Burroughs, Kerouac, and other less famous Beats as they interacted with each other. You will find that there's much more to the camaraderie of these guys than just trying to get laid (re: the other review). Rating: - All the old men and their boys It is interesting to see all the old men with their 'boys' in the photographs from the 1980s. Seems that the beats' endless search for kicks and highs always ended up with the ego-centered desire to prove that they could get laid. Yes, we know that the beats got laid, although their writing about sex always was at about a 9th grade level. What is weird to a mature eye is that they never got over their childish obsessions with young flesh. And the boys, some cute, most just young, live ... Read More

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