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  • Paperback: 261 pages
  • Publisher: Lapis Pr; First Edition edition (January 1989)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0932499562
  • ISBN-13: 978-0932499561
  • Product Dimensions: 1 x 6.2 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 starsPersonal reflections
By Lippertokes on November 1, 2012
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This was not quite what I was expecting. What I wanted was a biographical and analytical approach to seldom written about Beat poets. That's not what the book ultimately is.

Rather the author was a personal friend of most of these poets he writes about, and a lot of the biography of the poets is actually made up of encounters and time spent with them. There is some decent analysis at times, but overall, I felt disappointed by what I was reading. Also, if the author happened to get a lot of attention in his own life from the poets, like he did from Bukowski, he wrote more favourably about them, if he didn't, like the case with Ginsberg, he wrote like a child who didn't quite know how to impress their parents. The author is fairly honest about his need to impress these writers, so I guess that should be commended. The plus side to the book, is that some of the minor figures in the beat scene haven't got a lot of coverage, like Bob Kaufman and John Wierners, and this book fills in those blank spaces.

The downside is, what I have already mentioned above, as well as the far better biographies on the main players, such as Barry Miles on Ginsberg and the Bukowski book by Sounes, which you would be better off reading. There is also the annoying factor of the author trying to plug himself as a poet, and the ongoing saga of Cherkovski reminding the reader every 50 pages of how lonely he is. This serves as a fairly uneven and too personal introduction.

I do love the Beat writers, and really wanted to like this book, but just couldn't look past its shortcomings. Read only if you can't find information elsewhere.
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5.0 out of 5 starsTop notch!
By A Customer on May 5, 1999
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This is an outstanding book, one that offers keen insight into several of our most unjustly overlooked great authors.
Other fine books by Neeli Cherkovski are: Elegy for Bob Kaufman and Bukowski: A Life.
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5.0 out of 5 starsfine book.
By A Customer on January 28, 1999
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neeli cherkovski's only fine work. I recommend it highly.no lie. best and funniest descriptions of some of our most rebellious authors,
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