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Title: Family Business: Selected Letters Between a Father and Son by Allen Ginsberg, Louis Ginsberg, Michael Schumacher ISBN: 1-58234-107-9 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
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Summary: A Poetic Conversation Across the Generation Gap
Comment: Allen Ginsberg used to joke that poetry was "the family business." These letters between the late author of "Howl" and his poet-father, Louis, are more than a series of poignant exchanges between conservative father and Beat son. They comprise a 30-year conversation between conflicting ideas of the role of poetic tradition in making sense of the difficult world. Allen calls for a "full-scale revolution" in poetry, while Louis - a philosophically minded punster who wrote in rhymed couplets - coyly observes that Allen's comrades seem to think they have "invented honesty."
As the landmark events of the 20th Century unfold around them (the Cuban missile crisis, the Vietnam War, and explosive confrontations in the Middle East), they strive to find a common ground in their craft. The elder Ginsberg's tolerance is tested by his son's rebellion. Louis instructs Allen to "exorcise" his muse Neal Cassady as a destructive influence, and he's outraged when his son's longtime companion, Peter Orlovsky, is listed as Allen's "spouse" in Who's Who. Along the way, Allen's fame as the bearded paterfamilias of the flower-power generation grows, and he becomes the most trusted critic of his father's work. Louis comes to recognize that poems like his son's "Kaddish" - a shockingly frank portrayal of Allen's mother Naomi - pointed the way to the future of the art.
Poet Louis Untermeyer once remarked to Louis, "You are good for Allen, and he is good for you." Tracing their journey toward a shared conviction that poetry has the power to change history makes Family Business important reading for us all.
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Title: Deliberate Prose : Selected Essays 1952-1995 by Allen Ginsberg ISBN: 0060930810 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 20 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996 by Allen Ginsberg ISBN: 0060930829 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: White Shroud : Poems 1980-1985 by Allen Ginsberg ISBN: 0060914297 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 18 November, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation by Jonah Raskin ISBN: 0520240154 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Journals: Early Fifties Early Sixties by Allen Ginsberg ISBN: 0802133479 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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