Free spirits : annals of the insurgent imagination
Paul Buhle (Editor), City Lights Books (Publisher), Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)
The insurgent imagination is the catalyst that draws together libertarian cultural currents in America and around the world...Ornette Coleman on Harmolodic: Nelson Algren and Rusel Jaque on man's nature; Franklin Rosemont on Dada poet & boxer Arthur Cravan: Ted Joans on the schizophrenic art of Adolph Wolfli; the meeting-ground of materialist & idealist heritages: Joseph Jablonski's long essay on Shaker and Ephrata millenarian communities' undermining of patriarchy, capital, and private property: Paul Buhle's survey of the poet-prophets among immigrant American anarchists and socialists: Jim O'Brien's view of the country from the standpoint of the beaver; intersections of unconscious desire and conscious thought: Philip Lamantia on Alice Farley Dancing at Land's End: Fred Woodworth on Mystery and Adventure: Angela Carter's brilliantly macabre "The Cabinet of Edgar Poe."; seeing through the eyes of woman: anti-nuclear activist Joyce Stoller on Karen Silkwood, filmmakers Nelly Kaplan, Alanis Obomsawin, and Pat Ferrero who talks with Nancy Joyce Peters on arts outside academies & markets: poets Jayne Cortez and others: Penelope Rosemont's rediscovery of the marvelous Mary MacLane; the vital poetic spirit of non-Western arts & ceremonials: Jamake Highwater on sacred clowns and metaphor. Bill Cote on the oral tradition; C.L.R. James on the West Indies, Wilson Harris on voodoo, trance, poetry and dance; dreaming the social revolution: anarchist Gustav Landauer and Wobbly Covington Hall; E.P. Thompson on William Blake; a lively questionnaire on Celebrations directed by J. Karl Bogartte; an artist's diatribe by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.--back cover
Print Book, English, 1982
City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1982