:: In 1966 a teenage vagrant flees the draft and roams the highways. While seeking highest perfect wisdom . . .
. . . he finds brief success as a vagabond poet, before abandoning the limitations of language.
:: Randy Rhody's memoir The Hippie Hitchhiker from Nebraska sweeps away clichés of flower children, desperate addicts, and militant radicals . . .
. . . to bring you a roadside view of the '60s not seen by historians, journalists, or celebrities.
Allen Ginsberg in Nebraska
The year is 1966 and Allen Ginsberg is visiting the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, shocking and amusing the naïve students there. Eighteen-year-old Randy Rhody recalls hosting a party at his apartment for the world-renowned poet.
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Includes work by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth, Ishmael Reed, Tuli Kupferberg, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Clarence Major, Peter Seeger, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Edgar Lee Masters, Delmore Schwartz, Gregory Corso, Douglas Blazek, Leroi Jones, D. A. Levy, Julius Lester, Randy Rhody, e. e. cummings, Kenneth Patchen, Chief Joseph, Peter La Farge, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Charles Bukowski, Walter Lowenfels, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Robert Bly, Emily Dickinson, Archibald Macleish, and Woody Guthrie.
Hardcover, July 1969.
Walter Lowenfels, editor.
Doubleday, publisher.
ISBN-10: 0385017448.
ISBN-13: 978-0385017442.
WorldCat OCLC 70233707.
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