Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg

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With the sweep of an epic novel, Michael Schumacher tells the story of Allen Ginsberg and his times, with fascinating portraits of Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and William Burroughs, among others, along with many rarely seen photographs. Cover Half Title Title Copyright CONTENTS Acknowledgments Author's Note Preface BOOK ONE: POET 1. Garden State: Youth in New Jersey 2. Columbia and New York 3. Junkies and Geniuses 4. Book of Doldrums 5. The Gates of Wrath 6. Empty Mirror 7. Reality Sandwiches 8. In Back of the Real 9. Howl 10. The San Francisco Poetry Renaissance BOOK TWO: PROPHET 11. Europe! Europe! 12. Kaddish 13. Magic Psalm 14. TV Baby 15. Mediterranean Planet Waves 16. The Change: India and the Orient 17. Planet News 18. Kral Majales 19. Wichita Vortex Sutra 20. The Fall of America BOOK THREE: TEACHER 21. Memory Gardens 22. First Blues 23. The Lion of Dharma 24. Ego Confessions 25. Rolling Thunder Stones, Father Death Blues 26. Mind Breaths 27. Plutonian Ode 28. White Shroud 29. Cosmopolitan Greetings 30. Gone Gone Gone Notes Selected Works of Allen Ginsberg Selected Bibliography Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z