Whitman's Wild Children
by Neeli Cherkovski
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- Paperback
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0932499562
- ISBN 13
- 9780932499561
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About This Item
In Whitman's Wild Children, Neelie Cherkovski looks at ten contemporary poets, Charles Bukowski, John Wieners, James Broughton, Philip Lamantia, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, William Everson, Gregory Corso, Harold Norse, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- chosen because each, like Whitman, has taken "his own road" and had little to do with what was thought acceptable in mainstream American culture during the 1940's and 1950's.
As in his highly acclaimed biography Bukowski: A Life, Cherkovski draws on personal encounters and his own reactions to individual poems in order to create biographical portraits that are at once enlightening and full of life.
Synopsis
Whitman's Wild Childre n is a profile of twelve beat poets by Neeli Cherkovski, each of them chosen because they follow the ideals of Walt Whitman and took their own road - forsaking what was considered acceptable to standard American culture in the tempestuous 1940-50's. Michael McClure, Charles Bukowski, John Wieners, James Broughton, Philip Lamantia, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, William Everson, Gregory Corso, Harold Norse, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 202000515
- Title
- Whitman's Wild Children
- Author
- Neeli Cherkovski
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0932499562
- ISBN 13
- 9780932499561
- Publisher
- Lapis Press
- Place of Publication
- Venice, CA
- Date Published
- 1988
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature; Biography; Essays; First Editions; Poetry; Non-Fiction;
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