Bibliograph

Iron Curtain journals, January-May 1965, Allen Ginsberg ; edited by Michael Schumacher

Type

Label

Iron Curtain journals, January-May 1965, Allen Ginsberg ; edited by Michael Schumacher

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Iron Curtain journals

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1031153373

Responsibility statement

Allen Ginsberg ; edited by Michael Schumacher

Sub title

January-May 1965

Summary

"In 1965, Ginsberg travels to Cuba, where ignoring all advice, he behaves in his usual wonderfully provocative way and is deported under armed guard to, of all places, Prague. This leads to a remarkable and moving journey through the Iron Curtain countries, to Russia (the land of his heritage), to Poland and the Warsaw ghetto and to Auschwitz. When he returns to Prague, he runs afoul of the government when local students crown him "The King of May" and tour him around in a flatbed truck. He's beaten in the streets a few days later, arrested, and deported yet again: this time to swinging England, where he hangs out with Bob Dylan, meets the Beatles, and helps stage a massive international poetry reading at the Royal Albert Hall (where William S. Burroughs is piped in long distance over the P.A.)"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Cuba -- Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union -- Poland -- Czechoslovakia and England

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