|
List Price: $28.00Amazon.com's Price: $20.44 You Save: $7.56 (27%)as of 12/24/2009 22:45 EST
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9781582434445
Edition: First Edition, 1st Printing
ISBN: 1582434441
Label: Counterpoint
Manufacturer: Counterpoint
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: November 25, 2008
Publisher: Counterpoint
Studio: Counterpoint
Features:
Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
One of the central relationships in the Beat scene was the long-lasting friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Ginsberg introduced Snyder to the East Coast Beat writers, including Jack Kerouac, while Snyder himself became the model for the serious poet that Ginsberg so wanted to become. Snyder encouraged Ginsberg to explore the beauty of the West Coast and, even more lastingly, introduced Ginsberg to Buddhism, the subject of so many long letter exchanges between them. Beginning in 1956 and continuing through 1991, the two men exchanged more than 850 letters. Bill Morgan, Ginsbergâs biographer and an important editor of his papers, has selected the most significant correspondence from this long friendship. The letters themselves paint the biographical and poetic portraits of two of Americaâs most importantâand most fascinatingâpoets.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I am not sure why this book saw the light of day. It is mostly about minor money matters, travel plans and gossip. It belongs in the archive where biographers and literary scholars could use it in writing more comprehensive narratives or literary critiques of both men. Such scholars are used to plowing through trivial details to find the gems which fit into a larger picture more interesting to the reading public.
I got several things out of the book: a few juicy tidbits of gossip; an ... Read More
Rating:  -
Allen Ginsberg along with Kerouac, Burroughs and Corso were the icons of the Beat movement but others like Gary Snyder jumped on the Beat bandwagon as soon as they saw quick fame and $$$. Read Snyder's poetry and see that his poetry is nothing but safe, bourgeois and academic. Beats by definition were anti-establishment and progressive. Gary Snyder is neither. Through 8 years of the last adminstration's horrors, he never spoke up. Never took a political stand. And now he's calling himself the last ... Read More
Rating:  -
If you've paid attention to cultural events over the past 50 years then you've heard of these two poetic, literary, and, yes, Beat, stars. Kerouac gets the top billing, but without Snyder and Ginsberg guiding him and that heralded movement, it simply wouldn't've happened. And here we get insights into this special relationship. Trials, tribulations, travels, favors asked, jokes played ... it's all here. This very insightful and informative collection is a must read for anyone who is (or was) a free ... Read More
Rating:  -
Allen Ginsberg was, of course, the Great Beat(nik) Poet who achieved early fame/infamy with "Howl" and thereafter maintained a very public profile. Gary Snyder was the model for Jack Kerouac's Japhy Ryder in "The Dharma Bums" and is an excellent, if lesser known, poet (Snyder won a Pulitzer Prize for "Turtle Island" in the 1970s) and environmental activist. The two met shortly before their participation in the legendary San Francisco 6 Gallery reading in 1955 and maintained a correspondence until ... Read More
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9781582434445
Edition: First Edition, 1st Printing
ISBN: 1582434441
Label: Counterpoint
Manufacturer: Counterpoint
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: November 25, 2008
Publisher: Counterpoint
Studio: Counterpoint