ISBN 441-58875-0125 (US pbk)
non-fiction, essays, counterculture, underground, diggers, William S.Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Tuli Kupferberg, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Alan Watts, James Broughton, utopia, social history, haight-ashbury, San Francisco, california, 1960s
"I Read the News Today, Oh Boy" Allen Katzman;
"The Diggers in 1984" Paul Goodman;
"Poisoned Wheat" Michael McClure
(originally published as a broadsheet by City Lights Books);
"The Wakening of the People" Eben Given;
"Mutants Commune" Berkeley Barb ;
"The Ideology of Failure" Berkeley Barb ;
"Public Solitude" Allen Ginsberg;
"Notes for the New Geology" Chester Anderson;
"Learning from the Beatles" Richard Poirier;
"The Buzz of All Buzzes: George Harrison Interviewed" International Times ;
"Everything Is Beautiful: An Interview with Paul McCartney" International Times ;
"To Dance" Tom Robbins;
"Trip Without a Ticket" Communication Company ;
"Manifesto for a Concurrent Theater" James Broughton;
"Academy 23: A Deconditioning" William S.Burroughs;
"Metaman and the Mirror Minds" Paul Dorpat;
"Changes" Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder, Alan Watts;
"The Return to the Land" Walter Bowart;
"Diggers Do" Inner Space ;
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Political Club and Band" Walter Bowart and Allen Katzman;
"What Is a Hippie?" Guy Strait;
"The Hip and the Square: The Hippie Generation" Tuli Kupferberg;
"What Is the Underground?" M.Preston Burns;
"The Morality of the Immoral" Aldo Giunta;
"The Power of Non-Politics or the Death of the Square Left" Ralph J.Gleason;
"Look at Down Here" Lionel Mitchell;
"Drop City: A Total Living Environment" Albin Wagner;
"Gropings and Fumblings" Walter Bowart;
"Haight/Hate?" Communication Company ;
"Is Love Obscene?" John Kelsey;
"Flotsam and Jet Set" Liza Williams;
"Love: A Groovy Idea While He Lasted" Richard Goldstein;
"Revolution" Kurt Abram;
"Secrets of the Heart" Eben Given;
"The Death of Hippie";
"The Hippies Are Gone. Where Did They Go?" Paul Williams;
"Autumn in the Haight: Where Has Love Gone?" Don McNeill;
"From the Haight: The Politicalization of Hip" Berkeley Barb ;
"Oakland Induction Center: Tuesday, October 17, 1967" V.T.Ronay;
"The Pentagon Affair and the Exorcism of Innocence" Jonathan Chandler;
"Resist the Draft" Wayne Hansen;
"Toward a National Beg-In: Crawl for Peace" Berkeley Barb ;
Epilogue
"An excellent overview of the 1960's zeitgeist. Several of the documents in this collection are an absolute must read". --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space, 1995).
Highly recommended
The Digger Archives
(1% FREE... history of the San Francisco Diggers, 1966-1968, maintained by Eric Noble... Peter Coyote chapters from Free-Fall Chronicles ... San Francisco Mime Troupe, Haight Ashbury, Acid Tests, etc...
these guys were great, do check this site out)
Haight-Ashbury -- Additional Notes on the S.F.Oracle by Allen Cohen
(notes accompanying the CD-ROM Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties...
contact: The San Francisco Oracle, 2548 Myra Dell, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, USA...tel: 510-935 6492...
this is a bit of very important social history, so do check it out)
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