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Allen Ginsberg

Reality Sandwiches : 1953-1960 Paperback Book

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Diverse thought-provoking stories
Collection of avant-garde fiction
Insightful cultural perspectives
Compact portable paperback
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&#147Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages for yr own joy." Many of Ginsbergs most famous poems.Wakeup nightmares in Lower East Side, musings in public library, across the U.S. in dream auto, drunk in old Havana, brooding in Mayan ruins, sex daydreams on the West Coast, airplane vision of Kansas, lonely in a leafy cottage, lunch hour on Berkeley, beer notations on Skid Row, slinking to Mexico, wrote this last night in Paris, back on Times square dreaming of Times Square, bombed in NY again, loony tunes in the dentist chair, screaming at old poets in South America, aethereal zigzag Poesy in blue hotel room in Peru&#151a windup book of dreams, psalms, journal enigmas & nude minutes from 1953 to 1960 poems scattered in fugitive magazines here collected now book.". . .make no mistake, Reality Sandwiches, 195360 . . . is genuine poetry, and Ginsbergs commitment marks his superiority over more graceful and refined but tepid craftsmen." &#151Robert D. Spector, Poetry QuarterlyFamous Beat poet Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, Russian eacutemigr, and Louis Ginsberg, lyric poet and school teacher, in Paterson, N.J. To these facts Ginsberg adds "High school in Paterson till 17, Columbia College, merchant marine, Texas and Denver copyboy, Times Square, amigos in jail, dishwashing, book reviews, Mexico City, market research, Satori in Harlem, Yucatan and Chiapas 1954, West Coast 3 years. Later Arctic Sea trip, Tangier, Venice,...

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Binding: Paperback;104 pages; Publisher: City Lights Publishers; Classification: DC; Weight: 214 g; Dimensions: 124 x 159 x 8

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