Böcker av Gregory Stephenson

AND THE RIVERS THEREOF: Following the flow of river imagery through the writings of Jack Kerouac - novels, short stories, journals & essays. Reflections upon the roles and resonances of watercourses in the Kerouacian chronicle.

Notes on Gregory Corso's lost poems & last poems, comments on various of his verse plays, together with an account of a larcenous episode (long-hidden) from the poet's hapless youth. Photos and illustrations.

Akbar del Piombo - illustrious subterranean luminary, mysterious, pseudonymous author of six darkly comic, wildly satirical collage novels, together with half-a-dozen volumes of steamy prose. Akbar del Piombo - preposterous, portentous name, once widely believed to be a nom-de-plume of William S. Burroughs. Akbar del Piombo - the name itself a kind of collage, fittingly inconsonant for a virtuoso of the incongruous. Concealed behind the Akbar del Piombo pen name were the mordant eye and fertile brain of Norman Rubington (1921-1991.) Annotations herein based on a correspondence between Rubington and Gregory Stephenson.

Essays on six neglected books and their forgotten authors. Novels and autobiographies by Barbara O'Brien, George Mandel, Loran Hurnscot, M.K. Joseph, Anna Kavan, Finn MacMahon. Plot summaries and critical analyses.

Conversations with Paul Bowles & Mohammed Mrabet, Brion Gysin, "Pauline Réage," Robert Graves, Maurice Girodias, Berthe Cleyrergue, Edouard Roditi, Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky.

The essays and shorter pieces in this collection treat writers of the Beat Generation, together with certain of their allies and ancestors. Authors whose works are considered include Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Bob Kaufman, as well as Fitz Hugh Ludlow, James S. Lee and Ken Nordine. A theme seen implicitly to be linking these authors is their common yearning for utopian harmony and mystical transcendence, a desire that drives their vocation as pilgrims to elsewhere.