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Author:
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, author.
Title:
Iron Curtain journals : January-May 1965 / Allen Ginsberg ; edited by Michael Schumacher.
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
xvii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject:
Ginsberg, Allen,--1926-1997--Diaries.
Ginsberg, Allen,--1926-1997--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Ginsberg, Allen,--1926-1997--Travel--Cuba.
Ginsberg, Allen,--1926-1997--Travel--Communist countries.
Poets, American--20th century--Diaries.
Cuba--Description and travel.
Communist countries--Description and travel.
Other Authors:
Schumacher, Michael, 1950- writer of introduction. writer of introduction.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Cuba -- Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union -- Poland -- Czechoslovakia and England.
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.
ISBN:
0816699607
9780816699605
0816699593
9780816699599
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1031153373
LCCN:
2018016684
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

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