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| Author: Philip Whalen Philip Nccsen | Editor: Michael Rothenberg |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN-10: 014058918X
ISBN-13: 9780140589184
Buy.com Sku: 30449334
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
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(in Inches) 9.25H x 6L x 0.75T
Pages:
311
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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 Poems is a welcome opportunity to hear his influential voice again. |
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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 Poems is a welcome opportunity to hear his influential voice again.Selected poems from the celebrated Beat poet and friend of Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Michael McClure sample his "continuous nerve movie," stream-of-consciousness style of poetry. Original. |
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A selection of poems written over the course of Whalen's long career, OVERTIME brings many poems back into print after long--unaccountably long, to many minds--hiatuses. Often associated with the Beats, several of whom he had close friendships with, Whalen is distinct in his cultivation of a verse that combines Zen concentration and avuncular humor.
A selection of poems written over the course of Whalen's long career, OVERTIME brings many poems back into print after long--unaccountably long, to many minds--hiatuses. Often associated with the Beats, several of whom he had close friendships with, Whalen is distinct in his cultivation of a verse that combines Zen concentration and avuncular humor.
Boston Review
"Whalen and editor Michael Rothenberg have culled a compelling selection from Whalen's twenty-odd books of desperately joyful, often difficult poetry....Perhaps the most formally radical of the Beat poets, Whalen sought to make poems by interrupting himself continually--and then by interrupting his interruptions--and yet the collection reads like a single prolonged poetic exhortation." - Sarah Manguso December 1999/January 2000 Poetry Project Newsletter
"OVERTIME fills a gaping hole in the material universe, not to mention poetryland, by making Whalen's various takes on various worlds, as conveyed through the mind-and-sense altering abilities of his poetry, readily available to the interested masses.....Few American poets have created a body of work that so dazzlingly, and so humorously, transforms consciousness into poetry." - Anselm Berrigan February/March 2000
"Whalen and editor Michael Rothenberg have culled a compelling selection from Whalen's twenty-odd books of desperately joyful, often difficult poetry....Perhaps the most formally radical of the Beat poets, Whalen sought to make poems by interrupting himself continually--and then by interrupting his interruptions--and yet the collection reads like a single prolonged poetic exhortation." - Sarah Manguso December 1999/January 2000 Poetry Project Newsletter
"OVERTIME fills a gaping hole in the material universe, not to mention poetryland, by making Whalen's various takes on various worlds, as conveyed through the mind-and-sense altering abilities of his poetry, readily available to the interested masses.....Few American poets have created a body of work that so dazzlingly, and so humorously, transforms consciousness into poetry." - Anselm Berrigan February/March 2000
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