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 ...
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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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