Philip Whalen

Overtime: Selected Poems

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Like his college roommate Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen took both poetry and Zen seriously. He became friends with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Michael McClure, and played a key role in the explosive poetic revolution of the '50s and '60s. Celebrated for his wisdom and good humor, Whalen transformed the poem for a generation. His writing, taken as a whole, forms a monumental stream of consciousness or, as Whalen calls it, continuous nerve movie) of a wild, deeply read, and fiercely independent American -- one who refuses to belong, who celebrates and glorifies the small beauties to be found everywhere he looks. This long-awaited Selected Po… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-14-058918-4
EAN: 9780140589184
Produktnummer: 9389957
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Seitenangabe: 336 S.

Über den Autor

Philip Whalen spent fifteen years of formal Zen training in Santa Fe and San Francisco. He is currently the Abbot of Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco.