The View From Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Bathroom Window - Couverture souple

Whitehead, Ron

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1732209715 ISBN 13 : 9781732209718

Editeur : Underground Books, 2019

Synopsis

The View from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Bathroom Window is a collection of Beat Poems, Stories, Interviews, and Photos from the Underground. This collection represents the poetic works of Ron Whitehead, and his experiences and new interviews with such literary icons and giants as William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Jim Carroll, David Amran, the Dalai Lama, and more! \

by Ron Whitehead

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ron Whitehead is poet, writer, editor, publisher, organizer, scholar, professor. He grew up on a farm in Kentucky. He attended The University of Louisville and Oxford University. As a poet and writer he is the recipient of numerous state, national, and international awards/prizes including The All Kentucky Poetry Prize, The Joshua B. Everett Oxford Scholar Award, English Speaking Union Oxford Scholarship (to study at the University of Oxford's International Graduate School with Dr. Valentine Cunningham, Head of English Literature at Oxford), The Yeats Club of Oxford's Prize for Poetry. In 2006, Dr. John Rocco (NYC) nominated Ron for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2004, Ron was inducted into Ohio County High School's Hall of Fame, representing his 1968 graduating class. Ron's poetry has been published around the world in a diverse range of print and online publications from TRIQUARTERLY (Northwestern University/Illinois) to ARTFORUM (Czech Republic) to BLUE BEAT JACKET (Japan) to BEAT SCENE (England) to SOUTHERN REVIEW (Louisiana) to TRIBE magazine (NYC). Ron's work is held by museum, library, and private collections around the world. The University of Louisville Rare Books & Archives, directed by Delinda Buie, is the permanent repository for Ron's work (past, present, future), and several exhibits from these archives have been held, most recently at the main branch of the Louisville Free Public Library (November 2018-January 2019). Ron's poems have been translated into Spanish, Icelandic, Estonian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, French, Finnish, Tibetan, Greek, Italian, Czech, and other languages. Ron has served as guest editor for magazines and anthologies, acted as poetry and arts judge in many contests, and has been the keynote speaker at art and musical festivals around the world. In 2019, he was appointed State of Kentucky Beat Poet Laureate by the National Beat Poetry Foundation (serving from 2019-2021), and he was named as the first US citizen and fourth world-wide writer-in-residence, UNESCO Tartu City of Literature international residency program, Estonia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Underground Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1732209715
• ISBN 13: 9781732209718
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 166
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible