{"product_id":"first-thought-conversations-with-allen-ginsberg-paperback-softback-9780816699179","title":"First Thought; Conversations with Allen Ginsberg (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816699179","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFirst Thought\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConversations with Allen Ginsberg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Schumacher (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816699179\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 March 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages\u003cbr\u003e21 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.32 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With a knowledge born out of personal interviews conducted with Allen Ginsberg himself, Michael Schumacher understands more about Ginsberg’s poetry than anyone alive. This book presents Ginsberg’s own words in a thought-provoking, entertaining, and intelligent way. It is destined to be a perfect companion to any study of Ginsberg, the poet.\"-Bill Morgan, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Typewriter is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Michael Schumacher has dug deep and come up with a treasure trove of Ginsbergian thought-on topics ranging from sex and drugs and rock \u0026amp; roll to the genesis of \"Howl\" and \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e. We even get a writing how-to via the transcript of a Naropa classroom discussion between Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, and William S. Burroughs. This fascinating compendium is the perfect addition to the Beat canon.\"-Holly George-Warren, author of \u003ci\u003eA Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Rolling Stone Book of the Beats \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Schumacher provides an introduction to \u003ci\u003eFirst Thought\u003c\/i\u003e that ought to make Ginsberg fans scream with joy.\"-\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFirst Thought\u003c\/i\u003e reacquaints us with a wonderfully authentic person and poet.\"-\u003ci\u003ePopMatters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The collection is genuinely worthwhile.\"-\u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The way to point to the existence of the universe is to see one thing directly and clearly and describe it. . . . If you see something as a symbol of something else, then you don't experience the object itself, but you're always referring it to something else in your mind. It's like making out with one person and thinking about another.” -Ginsberg speaking to his writing class at Naropa Institute, 1985\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith “Howl” Allen Ginsberg became the voice of the Beat Generation. It was a voice heard in some of the best-known poetry of our time-but also in Ginsberg’s eloquent and extensive commentary on literature, consciousness, and politics, as well as his own work. Much of what he had to say, he said in interviews, and many of the best of these are collected for the first time in this book. Here we encounter Ginsberg elaborating on how speech, as much as writing and reading, and even poetry, is an act of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTestifying before a Senate subcommittee on LSD in 1966; gently pressing an emotionally broken Ezra Pound in a Venice \u003ci\u003epensione\u003c\/i\u003e in 1967; taking questions in a U.C. Davis dormitory lobby after a visit to Vacaville State Prison in 1974; speaking at length on poetics, and in detail about his “Blake Visions,” with his father Louis (also a poet); engaging William Burroughs and Norman Mailer during a writing class: Ginsberg speaks with remarkable candor, insight, and erudition about reading and writing, music and fame, literary friendships and influences, and, of course, the culture (or counterculture) and politics of his generation. Revealing, enlightening, and often just plain entertaining, Allen Ginsberg in conversation is the quintessential twentieth-century American poet as we have never before encountered him: fully present, in pitch-perfect detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Ginsberg’s Visions of Ordinary Mind \u003cbr\u003eMichael Schumacher\u003cbr\u003ePortrait of a Beat\u003cbr\u003eAl Aronowitz, 1960\u003cbr\u003eGinsberg Makes the World Scene\u003cbr\u003eRichard Kostalanetz, 1965\u003cbr\u003eGinsberg in Washington: Lobbying for Tenderness\u003cbr\u003eDon McNeill, 1966\u003cbr\u003eA Conversation between Ezra Pound and Allen Ginsberg\u003cbr\u003eMichael Reck, 1968\u003cbr\u003eIdentity Gossip\u003cbr\u003eGordon Ball, 1974\u003cbr\u003eA Conversation with Allen Ginsberg\u003cbr\u003eJohn Tytell, 1974\u003cbr\u003eAn Interview with Allen Ginsberg\u003cbr\u003eJames McKenzie, 1978\u003cbr\u003eSlice of Reality Life\u003cbr\u003eStephen M. 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Braitman, 1974\u003cbr\u003eVisions of Ordinary Mind (1948–1955): Discourse, with Questions and Answers, June 9, 1976\u003cbr\u003ePaul Portuges, 1976\u003cbr\u003eAllen Ginsberg Talks about Poetry\u003cbr\u003eKenneth Koch, 1977\u003cbr\u003eWords and Music, Music, Music\u003cbr\u003eMitchell Feldman, 1982\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Burroughs, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg: How to Notice What You Notice, How to Write a Bestseller, How to Not Solve a Crime in America\u003cbr\u003eAllen Ginsberg, 1985\u003cbr\u003eDreams, Reconciliations, and “Spots of Time”: An Interview with Allen Ginsberg\u003cbr\u003eMichael Schumacher, 1986\u003cbr\u003eNo More Bagels: An Interview with Allen Ginsberg\u003cbr\u003eSteve Silberman, 1987\u003cbr\u003eGinsberg Accuses Neo-Conservatives of Political Correctness\u003cbr\u003eKathleen O’Toole, 1995\u003cbr\u003eA Conversation with Allen Ginsberg\u003cbr\u003eTom McIntyre, 1995\u003cbr\u003eThe Beats and the Boom: A Conversation with Allen Ginsberg\u003cbr\u003eSeth Goddard, 1995\u003cbr\u003eAllen Ginsberg: An Interview\u003cbr\u003eGary Pacernick, 1997\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003eBooks by Allen Ginsberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570086768920,"sku":"9780816699179","price":14.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/first-thought-conversations-with-allen-ginsberg-paperback-softback-9780816699179","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}