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Snapshot Poetics: A Photographic Memoir of the Beat Era Paperback – January 1, 1993

by Allen Ginsberg (Author)
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A glorious collection of some 70 remarkable photographs of Beat writers and personalities taken by Ginsberg between 1953 and 1991 in venues from San Francisco to New York to Tangier. Originally published in Germany and re-edited for the present edition. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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  1. Print length
    96 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Chronicle Books Llc
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1993
  5. Dimensions
    8.5 x 0.25 x 9.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0811803724
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0811803724
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chronicle Books Llc
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 1993
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0811803724
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0811803724
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.25 x 9.5 inches
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    4.4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

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Allen Ginsberg

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Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, a son of Naomi Ginsberg and lyric poet Louis Ginsberg. In 1956 he published his signal poem, Howl, one of the most widely read and translated poems of the century. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, awarded the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French minister of culture in 1993, and co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, the first accredited Buddhist college in the Western world, Allen Ginsberg died on April 5, 1997.

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  • jax
    4.0 out of 5 stars daddy
    Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2013
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    daddy needed money so he gave us his pictures. Interesting view of that era less is more back then I think
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  • old beat
    3.0 out of 5 stars All the old men and their boys
    Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2001
    It is interesting to see all the old men with their 'boys' in the photographs from the 1980s. Seems that the beats' endless search for kicks and highs always ended up with the ego-centered desire to prove that they could get laid. Yes, we know that the beats got laid, although their writing about sex always was at about a 9th grade level.
    What is weird to a mature eye is that they never got over their childish obsessions with young flesh. And the boys, some cute, most just young, live out their lives as footnotes to the stars. In the age of AIDS, most of the beats would have died before becoming famous at all. Something for young new 'beats' to think about now--before they too become just dead footnotes.
    Ginsberg showed love in the early pictures--later, just cold views of the famous and their young sex objects--over and over and over. The beats used people; many in the photographs killed themselves or were pushed out of history. Ginsberg gives us a snapshot of how the myth was created.
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  • V. M.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 10, 2016
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    really nice
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