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Episodes (Graywolf Memoir) [Paperback]

Pierre Delattre (Author)
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Graywolf Memoir June 1, 1993
In each generation there are individuals who live at the center of and help develop the principal themes of the age. Though many of these people are not widely known, their lives are exemplary and their influence among a generation's leaders is profound. Pierre Delattre has been, since the 1950s, one of these people, a voyager who remains in the vanguard.

Episodes consists of distilled moments of autobiography: Delattre has captured the humor, the edge, and the sudden illuminations of the defining moments of his life and his generation. These are tales of his encounters with Albert Schweitzer, Richard Brautigan, Charles de Galle, the Dalai Lama, and Neal Cassady, and of his ministerial work running a North Beach landmark; the Bread and Wine Mission, during the beat/hippy golden age.

These are mystical, cautionary tales by a humorist whose focus is on how superbly the divine is expressed in the ordinary. Delattre is a bit the philosopher, but more the theologian.

Pierre Delattre is a writer, painter, and teacher who currently lives in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains between Taos and Santa Fe. He is the author of two novels, Walking on Air and Tales of a Dalai Lama, as well as many stories and poems.

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Poet, street minister, traveler and lover, Delattre ( Tales of a Dalai Lama ) has lived a rich life, and he recounts it in 92 two-page vignettes. Though the episodes stand on their own and Delattre encourages browsing, some readers may wish for a more developed narrative. Still, he tells amusing tales about his childhood and about people like the pest who prompted his friends to hold a fund-raising "Get Rid of Richard Night." He opened "an experimental coffeehouse ministry" in San Francisco and, as "the beatnik priest," was featured in Time and Newsweek. In Mexico, he barely escaped from two thugs and also met an Aztec-featured shoeshine boy who read Proust with his Francophile sailor father. Delattre married, divorced, found new love, studied and taught yoga, believes in UFOs and reports having a spontaneous orgasm after viewing a full moon. He has encountered the famous: he recalls concert promoter Bill Graham's beginnings, how author Richard Brautigan "could get drunk on anything" and how Neal Cassady died with Delattre's address in his pocket. In reaction to the latter news, Delattre decided, "I wanted to burn a slow flame, and last a long time."
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Writer, painter, and editor of Beatitude , Delattre has published two earlier books, Tales of the Dalai Lama (1971) and Walking on Air ( LJ 5/15/80). His latest offering consists of a series of one-page epiphanies, arranged chronologically, that record illuminating moments in the author's life. The sketches cover a wide range of subjects both public and private providing glimpses into Delattre's childhood, his marriages, and his life as a North Beach street minister. They also include brief portraits of Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Bill Graham, and Charles de Gaulle, among others. A love of life, a warm sense of humor, and a powerful spiritual yearning infuse these writings. Highly recommended.
- William Gargan, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., CUNY
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 190 pages
  • Publisher: Graywolf Press; 2nd edition (June 1, 1993)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1555971806
  • ISBN-13: 978-1555971809
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,805,963 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars good reading, December 23, 1998
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Fast paced snippets of fun stuff - fills in some gaps for those interested in San Francisco of this time period
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5.0 out of 5 stars one of my all time favorite books, October 23, 2009
This review is from: Episodes (Graywolf Memoir) (Paperback)
I just picked this book up for the first time in a while and immediately got sucked in to rereading tales that are all familiar but none the less delightful to read as the many times I've read and reread them in the past. great gift to give to friends. great tales to read aloud. hard to imagine a life that has encompassed all these magic moments & also great inspiration to distill one's own experiences into short prose poems like Pierre's.
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