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The Wild West Wind: Remembering Allen Ginsberg
The Wild West Wind Remembering Allen Ginsberg Author:Susan Edwards The Wild West Wind is a shamanic initiation into the raw heart of the twenthieth century's greatest, yet unacknowledged, visionary American poet. This personal memoir attests to the poetic lineage of Ginsberg's Darshan, which liberated and can still liberate the mind and voice like a breath taken unawares. We are fortunate to have Susan ... more »Edwards' bone-brilliant reminiscence to make the historical literary record complete. Ah! the veils are lifted if only for fifty pages! Susan Edwards, a close associate who worked with Allen Ginsberg for more than two decades at Naropa University. While touching on may facets of a complex man, the memoir focuses on the sometimes outrageous efforts by the famed Beat poet to bring the meditative practices of Tibetan Buddhism to the poet's path.« less