Ed Sanders's mock-heroic (and heroic) odyssey follows poet, filmmaker, and activist Sam Thomas, editor of Dope, Fucking, and Social Change, and a variegated cast of castoffs, dropouts, peaceniks, freakniks, and mendicant filthniks, from Kansas through the beatnik and hippie countercultures of New York City's Lower East Side and Greenwich Village. From the Freedom Rides and confrontations with the Alabama Klan to the "hate-dappled" Summer of Love, Tales of Beatnik Glory is the epic of America in the sixties, in a language of droll invention and stoned mythopoesis, from a man who once dared to exorcise the Pentagon. This revised edition adds two new volumes and includes twenty-five never-before-published stories
- ISBN10 1560256524
- ISBN13 9781560256526
- Publish Date 28 December 2004 (first published 1 January 1975)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 1 May 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Thunder's Mouth Press
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 784
- Language English