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  • A critical biography, Schumacher's book focuses more on Ginsberg's poems, providing both perceptive analyses and interesting textual history.
  • Michael Schumacher tells the story of Allen Ginsberg and his times, with fascinating portraits of Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and William Burroughs.
  • Draws from eight years of research and full access to Ginsberg's journals to present a dramatic biography that depicts three centuries of vanguard popular.

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    Dharma Lion

    "Given access to Ginsberg’s private archives and having interviewed more than 100 people in 10 years of research, Schumacher weaves a monumental cultural biography."—Publishers Weekly

    "The man, the poet visionary who created the beat generation single-mindedly out of the whole cloth of his dharma brothers is here embodied whole."—Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    "Michael Schumacher’s critical biography of Allen Ginsberg is a brilliant study of the poet, his work, and his times. Clear, candid, cogent, and complete, Schumacher has produced a marvelously balanced portrait, accessible to all lovers of American poetry."—Ann Charters, author of Kerouac: A Biography and The Portable Beat Reader

    "Dharma Lion is a thorough, detailed, painstaking, monumental, comprehensive, encyclopedic account of the life of our Poet Laureate, Allen Ginsberg."—Timothy Leary

    "Allen Ginsberg is our magnanimous mounta

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    Dharma Lion: A Critical Biography of Allen Ginsberg

    Michael Schumacher, Matthew A. Schumacher. St. Martin's Press, $35 (769pp) ISBN 978-0-312-08179-9

    Allen Ginsberg, choreographer of the Beat movement, ambassador of the counterculture and great communicator of several hip generations, attracts attention that crosses natural, generational, sexual and literary boundaries. In this in-depth biography, Schumacher ( Reason to Believe ) covers Ginsberg's childhood in N.J. where he was born in 1926, his years at Columbia University, his travels, writings, homosexuality and political adventures up until 1981, the last year he was published by fellow poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights, which brought out Howl in 1956 and defended the poem against censorship prosecution. Given access to Ginsberg's private archives and having interviewed more than 100 people in 10 years of research, Schumacher weaves a monumental cultural biography, covering Ginsberg's famous Gallery Six reading, his s

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    Review

    "Given access to Ginsberg’s private archives and having interviewed more than 100 people in 10 years of research, Schumacher weaves a monumental cultural biography."—Publishers Weekly

    "The man, the poet visionär who created the beat generation single-mindedly out of the whole cloth of his dharma brothers fryst vatten here embodied whole."—Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    "Michael Schumacher’s critical biography of Allen Ginsberg is a brilliant study of the poet, his work, and his times. Clear, candid, cogent, and complete, Schumacher has produced a marvelously balanced portrait, accessible to all lovers of American poetry."—Ann Charters, author of Kerouac: A Biography and The Portable Beat Reader

    "Dharma Lion fryst vatten a thorough, detailed, painstaking, monumental, comprehensive, encyclopedic konto of the life of our Poet Laureate, Allen Ginsberg."—Timothy Leary

    "Allen Ginsberg fryst vatten our magnan