Best Minds : : How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness / / Stevan M. Weine.
A revelatory look at how poet Allen Ginsberg transformed experiences of mental illness and madness into some of the most powerful and widely read poems of the twentieth century.Allen Ginsberg’s 1956 poem “Howl” opens with one of the most resonant phrases in modern poetry: “I saw the best minds of my...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 37 b/w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PROLOGUE
- Advance praise for Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness
- Chapter 1 Death and Madness, 1997–1998
- Chapter 2 An Unspeakable Act, 1986–1987
- Chapter 3 Refrain of the Hospitals and the New Vision, 1943–1948
- Chapter 4 The Actuality of Prophecy, 1948–1949
- Chapter 5 The Psychiatric Institute, 1949–1950
- Chapter 6 Mental Muse-eries, 1950–1955
- Chapter 7 Gold Blast of Light, 1956–1959
- Chapter 8 A Light Raying through Society, 1959–1965
- Chapter 9 White and Black Shrouds, 1987
- EPILOGUE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- INDEX