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Book Synopsis Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork by : Richard Brautigan
Download or read book Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork written by Richard Brautigan and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1976 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... delicate, full of insight and the ability to see and describe the possibilities and complications of the world in a lucid and totally original way ...
Book Synopsis Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork by : Richard Brautigan
Download or read book Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork written by Richard Brautigan and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1976 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mostly brief, frequently enigmatic verses point to the possibilities, complications, and plausible improbabilities of a world viewed from an original perspective
Download or read book Love and Death written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jubilee Hitchhiker by : William Hjortsberg
Download or read book Jubilee Hitchhiker written by William Hjortsberg and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of Troutfishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur, among many others. When Brautigan took his own life in September of 1984 his close friends and network of artists and writers were devastated though not entirely surprised. To many, Brautigan was shrouded in enigma, erratic and unpredictable in his habits and presentation. But his career was formidable, an inspiration to young writers like Hjortsberg trying to get their start. Brautigan's career wove its way through both the Beat–influenced San Francisco Renaissance in the 1950s and the "Flower Power" hippie movement of the 1960s; while he never claimed direct artistic involvement with either period, Jubilee Hitchhiker also delves deeply into the spirited times in which he lived. As Hjortsberg guides us through his search to uncover Brautigan as a man the reader is pulled deeply into the writer's world. Ultimately this is a work that seeks to connect the Brautigan known to his fans with the man who ended his life so abruptly in 1984 while revealing the close ties between his writing and the actual events of his life. Part history, part biography, and part memoir this etches the portrait of a man destroyed by his genius.
Download or read book Beat Culture written by William T. Lawlor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-05-20 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coverage of this book ranges from Jack Kerouac's tales of freedom-seeking Bohemian youth to the frenetic paintings of Jackson Pollock, including 60 years of the Beat Generation and the artists of the Age of Spontaneity. Beat Culture captures in a single volume six decades of cultural and countercultural expression in the arts and society. It goes beyond other works, which are often limited to Beat writers like William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, and Michael McClure, to cover a wide range of musicians, painters, dramatists, filmmakers, and dancers who found expression in the Bohemian movement known as the Beat Generation. Top scholars from the United States, England, Holland, Italy, and China analyze a vast array of topics including sexism, misogny, alcoholism, and drug abuse within Beat circles; the arrest of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti on obscenity charges; Beat dress and speech; and the Beat "pad." Through more than 250 entries, which travel from New York to New Orleans, from San Francisco to Mexico City, students, scholars, and those interested in popular culture will taste the era's rampant freedom and experimentation, explore the impact of jazz on Beat writings, and discover how Beat behavior signaled events such as the sexual revolution, the peace movement, and environmental awareness.
Book Synopsis Richard Brautigan by : John F. Barber
Download or read book Richard Brautigan written by John F. Barber and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his novel Trout Fishing in America, American writer Richard Gary Brautigan (1935–1984) published eleven novels, ten poetry collections, and two story collections, as well as five volumes of collected work, several nonfiction essays, and a record album of spoken voice recordings. Brautigan’s idiosyncratic style and humor caused him to be identified with the counterculture movement of the 1960s. The authors of many of these 32 essays knew Brautigan personally and professionally; others came to know and respect him through a cultivated connection with his writings. The essays—many of which are new, others of which were published in obscure journals—combine personal remembrance of the man and critical appraisal of his still-controversial works. Includes previously unpublished photographs and artworks.
Book Synopsis Contemporary American Poetry by : Lloyd M. Davis
Download or read book Contemporary American Poetry written by Lloyd M. Davis and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists over 5,200 titles of books published by American poets between 1973 and 1983.
Download or read book Tumult! written by Donald Brackett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrative of Tumult! The Incredible Life and Music of Tina Turner is an extended exploration of the magical transformation of shy country girl Anna Mae Bullock into the boisterous force of nature we know today as Tina Turner. This is creative alchemy in action: turning into Turner is actually also the captivating tale of someone who was already precociously there, a stellar talent just waiting to emerge and grab the global spotlight. Far from the early myths attached to her name by association with her talented but tormenting producer-husband, she was not a Svengali-like creation at all, but rather a fully formed, if vulnerable, young musical prodigy who was going to burst out of the creative shell imposed upon her one way or the other. Even though it took sixteen years to do so, her second career as a solo pop artist is the achievement for which she is rightly remembered. In Turner, we have a case study in triumph over adversity and sheer creative will power: singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, feminist icon. Often referred to as the Queen of Rock and Roll, she has sold over two hundred million records and sold more live concert tickets than any other solo performer in history. In 2019, she celebrated her eighieth birthday and was also lionized in the live Broadway version of her incredible life story, Tina: The Musical, starring Adrienne Warren. In Tumult!, we unearth and examine what uncanny skills enabled her to connect with so many people at such a deep heart-to-heart level. She is, in fact, a beating human heart in high heels.
Book Synopsis Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt by : Richard Brautigan
Download or read book Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt written by Richard Brautigan and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1970-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Radical Traditions by : Andrew Clay McGraw
Download or read book Radical Traditions written by Andrew Clay McGraw and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Radical Traditions, author Andrew Clay McGraw shows how music kontemporer embodies the tensions between culture as represented and lived. Through a highly interdisciplinary approach this book presents an all-encompassing social and musical history of musik kontemporer.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Beat Literature by : Kurt Hemmer
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Beat Literature written by Kurt Hemmer and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the literary works and great authors of the Beat Generation.
Book Synopsis Richard Brautigan by : Marc Chénetier
Download or read book Richard Brautigan written by Marc Chénetier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few contemporary American writers have been subjected to as much laudatory abuse as Richard Brautigan who, having become famous in the 1960s, was made a cult figure for the hippy generation and was systematically refused recognition as a major novelist once the sentimental wave of the ‘greening of America’ had passed. Marc Chénetier’s study, originally published in 1983, was the first book to attempt to assess Brautigan’s writing art which, far from weakening over the years, had become, amid critical indifference, more secure in its techniques, more all-encompassing in its strategy and more iconoclastic in its goals. In analysing most of Brautigan’s fictional works in the light of his poetics, it examines the mechanisms of his metafictional and deconstructive offensive and indicates the direction in which Brautigan was moving at the time.
Book Synopsis Thanking Richard Brautigan by : Bill Archer
Download or read book Thanking Richard Brautigan written by Bill Archer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does a reader do when his favorite author dies? The sudden and unexpected loss of a steady stream of preferred reading material is a shock to the reading diet, and changing diets is never an easy thing. Here's one reader's answer: write your own book, paying tribute to the author and saying thanks, all while struggling with life's humorous observations along the journey.
Download or read book Collected Books written by Allen Ahearn and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to and advice on book collecting with a glossary of terms and tips on how to identify first editions and estimated values for over 20,000 collectible books published in English (including translations) over the last three centuries-about half are literary titles in the broadest sense (novels, poetry, plays, mysteries, science fiction, and children's books); and the other half are non-fiction (Americana, travel and exploration, finance, cookbooks, color plate, medicine, science, photography, Mormonism, sports, et al).
Book Synopsis The Echo of Applause by : Robert W. Birch
Download or read book The Echo of Applause written by Robert W. Birch and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-09-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Echo of Applause is the latest of six collections of poetry published by this author. Dr. Robert Birch is retired after almost 35 years of practice as a psychologist specializing in marital and sex therapy. Initially he wrote bawdy limericks and then moved on to other forms of verse. His first book of poetry is highly erotic, but with each successive publication he has moved toward broader topics. This book is a prime example of his versatility, not only in subject matter, but also in form. Poems in this book are grouped into these overlapping categories: Ballads & Such, Youth, Life and Death, Perils of Aging, Virtue and Value, Love Won and Lost, People Watching, Nature, Sonnets, Memories, The Villanelle, Protest, Poets and their Poems, Dreams, Stories, Two Odes, Voice of Eros, Cinquain Collection, and Haiku. Within the 200 pages, you will find humorous verse, as well as poems of a more serious nature. You will find poems written in strict meter and perfect rhyme, but also many examples of free verse. The book will appeal to those who like reading poetry they can understand, poetry that will make them laugh as well as think, and poetry that they can easily related to.
Book Synopsis Landscapes of Language: Richard Brautigan's Fiction by : John Tanner
Download or read book Landscapes of Language: Richard Brautigan's Fiction written by John Tanner and published by Humanities-Ebooks. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Richard Brautigan was a counter-cultural celebrity, a writer that the would-be hip just had to read. The problem was that his fame did not rest on the considerable literary virtues of his work but, to a great extent, on a hippie image exemplified by the photograph of him on the cover of his breakthrough novel, 'Trout Fishing in America'. When nobody wanted tie-dye shirts and gurus any more, they didn’t want Brautigan either. Academics have followed the public’s lead: this is the first book-length study of Brautigan in English for 30 years. Its purpose is to reclaim Brautigan’s reputation. Dr. John Tanner analyses Brautigan’s fiction against the background of the cultural and literary upheavals from which it emerged and demonstrates that Brautigan is no mere Sixties curio but an innovative and vibrant American voice ignored for far too long.
Book Synopsis The Beat Generation FAQ by : Rich Weidman
Download or read book The Beat Generation FAQ written by Rich Weidman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (FAQ). The Beat Generation FAQ is an informative and entertaining look at the enigmatic authors and cutting-edge works that shaped this fascinating cultural and literary movement. Disillusioned with the repression and conformity encompassing post-World War II life in the United States, the Beat writers sought creative alternatives to the mind-numbing banality of modern culture. Beat Generation writers were no strangers to controversy: Both Allen Ginsberg's prophetic, William Blakean-style poem "Howl" (1956) and William S. Burroughs' groundbreaking novel Naked Lunch (1959) led to obscenity trials, while Jack Kerouac's highly influential novel On the Road (1957) was blamed by the establishment for corrupting the nation's youth and continues to this day to serve as a beacon of hipster culture and the bohemian lifestyle. The Beat writers shared a vision for a new type of literature, one that escaped the boundaries of academia and employed an organic use of language, inspired by the spontaneity and improvisational nature of jazz music and abstract expressionism (Kerouac coined this writing style "spontaneous prose"). In search of deeper meaning, Beat Generation writers experimented not only with language but also with spirituality, art, drugs, sexuality, and unconventional lifestyles. Although the movement as a whole flamed out quickly in the early 1960s, replaced by the onset of the hippie counterculture, the Beats made an indelible mark on the nation's consciousness and left a long-lasting influence on its art and culture. This book details the movement its works, creative forces, and its legacy.
