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RE/Search #4/5 - William S. Burroughs (Contributor), Brion Gysin (Contributor), Throbbing Gristle (Contributor), and V Vale (Editor)
William Burroughs, Brion Gysin & Throbbing Gristle talk about advanced ideas involving the social control process, creativity and the future. Interviews, scarce fiction, essays: this is a manual of ideas and insights. Strikingly designed, with rare photos, bibliographies, discographies, chronologies & illustrations. Includes 58 photos and illustrations.
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Poetry As Insurgent Art - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
rom the groundbreaking (and betselling) A Coney Island of the Mind in 1958 to the "personal epic" of Americus, Book I in 2003, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has, in more than thirty books, been the poetic conscience of America. Now in Poetry As Insurgent Art, he offers, in prose, his primer of what poetry is, could be, should be. The result is by turns tender and furious, personal and political....
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Destroy All Rational Thought: Celebrating William Burroughs and Brion Gysin in Ireland - Frank Rynne (Director) and Joe Ambrose (Director)
Documenting "The Here to Go Show" , a commemoration of the lives of Burroughs and Gysin, which took place in Ireland in 1992. Featuring one of the last interviews William Burroughs gave as well as previously unseen footage of Burroughs during the 50s and 60s. The Master Musicians of Joujouka, lifelong favorites of Burroughs and inspiration to many, provide a soundtrack.
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Beat - Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Contributor), Jack Kerouac (Contributor), Amiri Baraka (Introduction by), and Christopher Felver
There has never before been a book filled with this many photographs of equal Beat Era personalities -- the most comprehensive photography collection of the people, players, and friends of the Beat era in American literature. Includes photos of: Kathy Acker, David Amram, Karel Appel, Al Aronowitz, John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Richard Brautigan, James Broughton, Joan Brown, Charles Bukowski, Will...
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Howl On Trial: The Battle For Free Expression - Jack Kerouac (Contributor), Allen Ginsberg (Contributor), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Introduction by), Nancy J Peters (Editor), and Bill Morgan (Editor)
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Howl and Other Poems, with nearly 1,000,000 copies in print, City Lights presents the story of editing, publishing, and defending the landmark poem within a broader context of obscenity issues and censorship of literary works. This collection begins with an introduction by publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who shares his memories of hearing "Howl" first read at the ...
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Conspiracy In The Streets: The Extraordinary Trial Of The Chicago Eight - Tom Hayden (Afterword By), Bobby Seale (Contributor), Abbie Hoffman (Contributor), and Jon Weiner (Editor)
Michael Moore mocks George Bush and Al Franken ridicules Rush Limbaugh, but the mixing of play and politics today is polite and respectful compared to the carnival of contempt known as the Chicago Eight trial. Opening at the end of 1969, the trial brought Yippies, antiwar activists, and Black Panthers to face conspiracy charges arising from the massive protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The...
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Kaddish: Allen Ginsberg Reads Kaddish A 20th Century American Ecstatic Narrative Poem - Allen Ginsberg
Written in one non-stop 40 hour marathon session fueled by dexedrine, LSD and coffee, Kaddish stands as an epic testament to Ginsberg's literary talent. This performance of the epic narrative was originally released in 1966. This new CD edition includes new liner notes by Beat-era scholar Harvey Kubernik.
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First Blues - Bob Dylan (Contributor) and Allen Ginsberg
This 2 CD set spanning 1971-1981 collects Ginsberg performing 24 pieces - sometimes accompanying himself, some tracks collaborating with Bob Dylan, New York underground legend Arthur Russell, and visionary producer John Hammond. Contains the original detailed liner notes by Ginsberg, and a cover photo by the legendary Robert Frank.
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Yage Letters Redux - Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs
In January 1953, William Burroughs began a seven-month expedition into the jungles of South America, ostensibly to find yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. But Burroughs also cast his anthropological-satiric eye over the local regimes to record trademark vignettes of political and psychic malaise. From the notebooks he kept and the letters he wrote home to Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs composed a narrat...
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Americus Book I - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Ferlinghetti's own born-in-the-USA epic. Describing his work as "part documentary, part public pillow-talk, part personal epic - a descant, a canto unsung, a banal history, a true fiction, lyric and political," Ferlinghetti combines "universal texts, snatches of song, words or phrases, murmuring of love or hate, from Lotte Lenya to the latest soul singer, saying and shibboleths from Yogi Berra to the Nationa...
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