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THE RAGGED PROMISED LAND

THE RAGGED PROMISED LAND

Gregory Stephenson

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Ober-Limbo Verlag
Año de edición:
2020
Materia
Biografía: general
ISBN:
9788797156926
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THE RAGGED PROMISED LAND: Jack Kerouac’s America and other scenes.Travels in a holey holy land, sojourns in a skid row hotel, larceny & poetic license, a secret Victorian stoner, raptures of an impoverished consumptive young poet, the strange resurrection of old engravings, a gathering of far-flung fragments, moving a ton of weed. Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Akbar del Piombo, Samuel Greenberg, Jerry Kamstra and someone else. 

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