The Wild West Wind - Softcover

Edwards, Susan

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ISBN 10: 1887997199 ISBN 13: 9781887997195

Publisher: Baksun Books, 2001

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Cultural Writing. Memoir. Poetry. This memoir of Allen Ginsberg is written by Susan Edwards, a close associate who worked with him for more than two decades at Naropa University. While touching on many facets of a complex man, the memoir focuses on the sometimes outrageous efforts of the famed Beat poet to bring the meditative practices of Tibetan Buddhism to the poet's path. "THE WILD WEST WIND is a shamanic initiation into the raw heart of the twentieth 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" --Patricia Donegan.

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About the Author:

Susan Edwards is a writer, book artist and metaphysician. She taught writing, sacred literature and did collaborative performance at Naropa University from 1979 to 1990 where she co-founded the Book Arts Program with Barbara Bash and directed the undergraduate Writing and Poetics Department. In her current work, she seeks to bring images and text together in aesthetic and digital ways. She also has her own company, The Practical Mystic, that produces tapes, chapbooks, broadsides and offers lectures and sometimes classes.

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