Hand on the Doorknob [Paperback]

Charles Plymell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2000

In Hand on The Doorknob, we finally have a concise selection of Charles Plymell's best prose and poetry. Kansas, San Francisco, New York, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, R. Crumb - these are but a few of the places and people that Plymell writes about in Hand on The Doorknob.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Plymell lived with Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg in San Francisco in the early 1960s. Ever since then, he has been associated with the Beat Generation, both as a writer (The Last of the Moccasins) and the cofounder, with his wife, Pamela Beach Plymell, of Cherry Valley Editions, which issued the work of Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, and Ray Bremser, among others. This sampler includes a representative selection of the author's poetry and prose, including personal reminiscence of, and poetic tributes to, his late friends Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Jack Micheline. Plymell's writings share the Beat Generation's tradition of protest as well as its concern over governmental interference with individual freedoms, especially the enactment of anti-drug legislation. This work will probably not win him many new readers, but Beat aficionados will not want to miss it. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries.DWilliam Gargan, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., CUNY
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About the Author

Charles Plymell has been active participant in the formation of American literary history for over forty years. He printed the first ZAP comic book for R. Crumb in the sixties, his seminal novel, Last of the Moccasins, was published by City Lights, he co-founded Cherry Valley Editions and, with his wife, Pamela Beach Plymell, they published major work by William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Herbert Huncke. Charles Plymell lives in Cherry Valley, New York.

Product Details

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: Water Row Books (June 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0934953597
• ISBN-13: 978-0934953597
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #879,191 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Still kickin' and writing -- outlaw poet (and early Beat) Charley Plymell, July 26, 2009

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This review is from: Hand on the Doorknob (Paperback)

Charley Plymell needs to be better known -- he never sold out to the commercial interest of the literary world -- and thus, hasn't been published as much. Check him out. You will not be let down. Charley perfers 'outlaw' poet to beat poet, but was in the middle of it all -- Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg even lived in his place in San Francisco, 1964 or so. He also printed the first issue -- if you got one (.25 version), it goes for a few thousand dollars now -- of Zap comics.

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