Listy allen ginsberg biography by barry miles
Describing his world travels, mantra-chanting, meditation, musical compositions and achievements as a photographer, Miles traces Ginsberg's development..
A life so dramatic, so dangerous, so committed to hard-volume truth, that his survival is a miracle, his kindness, wisdom and modesty a mysterious blessing.
Ginsberg: A Biography
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989 / London: Viking Penguin, 1989 / [Revised, updated edition] London, Virgin Books, 2002
In 1983 I was hanging around in New York with my friend Victor Bockris and through him got to know his friend Andrew Wylie; they wrote articles and books together under the combined name of Bockris-Wylie.
Andrew had decided to become a literary agent. One evening, I was with them, along with Victor’s flatmate Jeff Goldberg, in the garden of an Italian restaurant just off Father Nimo Square in Greenwich Village, and Andrew told us in his usual confident way that he was going to get us all enormous advances, even though at this time none of us had yet written a proper book.
I was to write a biography of my old friend Allen Ginsberg, Victor was to write a biography of his old friend Andy Warhol, and Jeff was going to write a book on opium. It seemed an excellant idea. Andrew had devised a complicated way of presenting books: a lo