Best Minds of My Generation Literary History of the Beats Allen Ginsberg First

Description: Here is a copy of The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats by Allen Ginsberg, edited by Bill Morgan and with a Foreword by Anne Waldman. Grove Press 2017. Stated First Edition April 2017, First Printing—has complete number line. 460 pages, including Works Cited and Reading List. Reviews: “A marvelous feat of editing and reorganization . . . A compact and often spellbinding text, preserving intact the story of the literary movement Ginsberg led, promoted and never ceased to embody . . . Put together by an erudite genius of encyclopedic recall.” ―New York Times Book Review “Scholarly, wide-ranging and full of penetrating insight and fascinating literary gossip, the book is a major contribution to the core Beat canon, and provides an astonishingly intimate view of a homegrown American literary movement that would have a generative influence worldwide . . . Best Minds situates the Beats in cultural history in a way that no other exploration of their work does.” ―San Francisco Chronicle Jack Kerouac may have coined the term Beat Generation, but it was Ginsberg’s indefatigable energy that shaped and sustained one of the most significant movements in American literature . . . Morgan, a leading authority on Ginsberg and author of numerous books on the Beat Generation, has done a superb job organizing and editing the material, while preserving the poet’s voice and lecture style . . . Essential reading.” ―Library Journal “A gold mine for anyone interested in beat literature . . . Ginsberg reads and thinks like a poet; interested in language and style, he abandons narrative to leap from image to image, yoking grandiloquent statements with pungent summations and deadpan remarks. Fans of the period will embrace Ginsberg’s raconteur style and insider knowledge about his friends and their achievements.” ―Publishers Weekly This copy is in Very Good Condition. There are no apparent markings in text. No remainder mark. Binding is tight and square. Yellow boards are clean and bright, as is black printing on spine. Bumped at top and bottom of spine. DJ is not price clipped. DJ has mostly very light edgewear/shelfwear, a bit of creasing top front towards spine. A very nice copy. Please see photos. Shipped with USPS Media Mail. Thank you for your consideration!🌺

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