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"An illuminating biography of the minimalist poet Robert Lax, a man who embraced simplicity, humility, and poverty and found the pure joy, peace and love he had long sought. Pure Act tells the story of poet Robert Lax, whose quest to live a true life as both an artist and a spiritual seeker inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac, William Maxwell and a host of other writers, artists and ordinary people. Known in the U.S. primarily as Merton's best friend and in Europe as a daringly original avant-garde poet, Lax left behind a promising New York writing career to travel with a circus, live among immigrants in post-war Marseilles and settle on a series of remote Greek islands where he learned and recorded the simple wisdom of the local people. Born a Jew, he became a Catholic and found the authentic community he sought in Greek Orthodox fishermen and sponge divers. In his early life, as he alternated working at the New Yorker, writing screenplays in Hollywood and editing a Paris literary journal with studying philosophy, serving the poor in Harlem and living in a sanctuary high in the French Alps, Lax pursued an approach to life he called pure act--a way of living in the moment that was both spontaneous and practiced, God-inspired and self-chosen. By devoting himself to simplicity, poverty and prayer, he expanded his capacity for peace, joy and love while producing distinctive poetry of such stark beauty critics called him "one of America's greatest experimental poets" and "one of the new 'saints' of the avant-garde." Written by a writer who met Lax in Greece when he was a young seeker himself and visited him regularly over fifteen years, Pure Act is an intimate look at an extraordinary but little-known life. Much more than just a biography, it's a tale of adventure, an exploration of friendship, an anthology of wisdom, and a testament to the liberating power of living an uncommon life"--

Poets, American --- Poetry --- Authorship --- Poetics --- Authorship. --- Lax, Robert. --- Authentic. --- Authenticity. --- Catholic. --- Experimental Poetry. --- Greece. --- Jack Kerouac. --- Robert Lax. --- Simplicity. --- Spiritual Life. --- Thomas Merton. --- Writers.

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This fascinating book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using the concept of worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formation.

Beat literature --- Literature and transnationalism --- Transnationalism and literature --- Transnationalism --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- Beats (Persons) --- American literature --- Literature and transnationalism. --- History and criticism --- Beat generation --- Beatniks --- Persons --- Bohemianism --- beat generation --- 20th century literature --- history and criticism --- american literature --- Allen Ginsberg --- Ayahuasca --- Jack Kerouac --- Surrealism --- William S. Burroughs

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Remarquable tant par sa rigueur que par l'étendue des informations collectées, ce recueil fait le bilan de l'extraordinaire et décisive rencontre entre nombre d'Occidentaux sincèrement en quête de sens et les représentants des traditions religieuses et métaphysiques de l'Orient considérées dans toute leur diversité spirituelle et intellectuelle. Après être revenu sur le débat autour de l'Orientalisme initié par Edward Said et l'ébauche de dialogue qui s'est esquissée lors de la réunion du premier Parlement des religions en 1893, Harry Oldmeadow s'intéresse à tous les voyageurs, théosophes, universitaires ou maîtres spirituels qui ont depuis engagé une approche renouvelée de la spiritualité. On croisera ainsi des personnalités aussi différentes que Lama Anagarika Govinda, Alexandra David-Néel, Annie Besant, Walter Y. Evans-Wentz, Soeur Nivedita, Mircea Eliade, Rudolf Otto, René Guénon, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Frithjof Schuon, Marco Pallis, Daisetz T. Suzuki, Thomas Merton, Carl G. Jung, Heinrich Zimmer, Henri Le Saux, Bede Griffiths, Jack Kerouac ou Gary Snyder. Ce brassage inédit des cultures et des spiritualités a définitivement changé les relations entre les religions et renouvelé les conceptions métaphysiques des uns et des autres. Une étude incontournable.

diversité spirituelle --- islam --- hindouisme --- bouddhisme --- l’Orientalisme --- Edward Saïd --- idéalisme romantique --- dialogue --- le premier Parlement des Religions en 1893 --- voyageurs --- théosophes --- universitaires --- maîtres spirituels --- approche renouvelée de la spiritualité --- Lama Anagarika Govinda --- Alexandra David-Néel --- Annie Besant --- Walter Y. EvansWentz --- Soeur Nivedita --- Mircea Eliade --- Rudolf Otto --- René Guénon --- Ananda K. Coomaraswamy --- Frithjof Schuon --- Marco Pallis --- Daisetz T. Suzuki --- Thomas Merton --- Heinrich Zimmer --- Henri Le Saux --- Bede Griffiths --- Jack Kerouac --- Gary Snyder --- cultures et spiritualités --- les relations entre les religions --- la spiritualité et les conceptions métaphysiques --- approche renouvelée de la spiritualité --- cultures et spiritualités --- les relations entre les religions --- la spiritualité et les conceptions métaphysiques --- l’Orient --- traditions religieuses et métaphysiques de l’Orient

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Beat Studies represent a vibrant field of intellectual inquiry, and this collection examines Beat culture as deeply infused with ecological themes. Allen Ginsberg invented the term "Flower Power" and Beat texts uncover the sources of our current existential climate predicament. This is the first edited collection to place the Beat Generation in conversation with the environment. A diverse number of contributors from Asia, Europe, and North America addresses essential environmental subjects and the deep ecological vision of the Beats.

Allen Ginsberg --- Beat Generation --- poetry --- poetics --- memory --- Guy Debord --- psychogeography --- landscape --- ecocriticism --- pilgrimage --- Geoffrey Chaucer --- The Canterbury Tales --- Jack Kerouac --- On the Road --- ecopoetics --- slow travel --- vernacular --- William S. Burroughs --- Naked Lunch --- dark ecology --- consumption --- control --- Timothy Morton --- speciesism --- consumerism --- mass extinction --- climate change --- environmental humanities --- posthuman --- non-philosophy --- Beat women --- eco-criticism --- green reading --- Diane di Prima --- Anne Waldman --- Kerouac --- frontier --- ecotopia --- ecopoetry --- New York School --- New American Poetry --- reparative reading --- environment --- Black Mountain --- Queer --- Ghost of Chance --- Yage Letters --- Madagascar --- experimental film --- cyberpunk --- nature --- sound --- animals --- beat generation --- comparative literature --- white shamanism --- Beat poetry --- anthropocentric materialism --- Buddhist poetics --- biotic community

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Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in which it was written and gives striking new portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. Drawing from newly released psychiatric reports on Ginsberg, from interviews with his psychiatrist, Dr. Philip Hicks, and from the poet's journals, American Scream shows how Howl brought Ginsberg and the world out of the closet of a repressive society. It also gives the first full accounting of the literary figures-Eliot, Rimbaud, and Whitman-who influenced Howl, definitively placing it in the tradition of twentieth-century American poetry for the first time. As he follows the genesis and the evolution of Howl, Jonah Raskin constructs a vivid picture of a poet and an era. He illuminates the development of Beat poetry in New York and San Francisco in the 1950s--focusing on historic occasions such as the first reading of Howl at Six Gallery in San Francisco in 1955 and the obscenity trial over the poem's publication. He looks closely at Ginsberg's life, including his relationships with his parents, friends, and mentors, while he was writing the poem and uses this material to illuminate the themes of madness, nakedness, and secrecy that pervade Howl.A captivating look at the cultural climate of the Cold War and at a great American poet, American Scream finally tells the full story of Howl-a rousing manifesto for a generation and a classic of twentieth-century literature.

Ginsberg, Allen --- Literature and mental illness --- Poetry --- Mental illness in literature. --- Beat generation. --- Insanity in literature --- Psychopathology in literature --- Authors, Insane --- Mental illness and literature --- Poets, Insane --- Beat generation --- Beatniks --- Persons --- Bohemianism --- History --- Psychological aspects. --- Ginsberg, Allen, --- Ginzberg, Alen, --- Gīnasabārga, Ayālena, --- Ginsberg, Irwin Allen, --- גינזברג, אלן --- Knowledge --- Psychology. --- 20th century. --- allen ginsberg. --- america. --- american culture. --- american poetry. --- american poets. --- american society. --- art and literature. --- beat generation. --- beat movement. --- beat poets. --- cold war america. --- controversial. --- critical analysis. --- cultural history. --- historical review. --- howl. --- jack kerouac. --- lit scholars. --- lit studies. --- literary criticism. --- literary figures. --- literary movements. --- modern poetry. --- new york. --- political literature. --- psychiatry. --- repressive society. --- san francisco. --- spoken word poetry. --- united states. --- walt whitman. --- william burroughs. --- Beats (Persons)