Allen Ginsberg biography...

"Will Dockery" <will_dockery.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> When I glanced at the "new" version, I noticed there was
> more material than the first edition I bought back in 1975.
> Do you have the earlier edition? I'm curious about what
> was added to it. Maybe another old timer can answer this,
> since I doubt I'll be getting the 1981 revision anytime soon.
> Will

The 1971 edition had 157 pages; the 1981 had 222 and so was some 40 percent
larger.

Most of the new material was accounted for by the discovery of a Prologue to
his autobiography which Neal had written, describing the life of his mother
and father before he himself was born.

Also, a more complete version of Neal's "First Third" manuscript was
recovered, including his own hand-written revisions, as described in an
Afterword by Carolyn Cassady, and both were used in the 1981 edition.

Dave
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has the collected letters (Cassady) been moved up to July? I back
ordered it on Amazon.com and I keep wondering (and looking forward) as
to its arrival. THANKS.



"Dave Moore" <dave.DeleteThis@dsPaMmEjnOtmoore.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:<c6qhf1$plt$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>...
 > "Will Dockery" <will_dockery.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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   > > > I noticed an expanded version of "The First Third" in a Beat bookshop
   > > > in Atlanta a year or so ago, from City Lights, but didn't buy it---
   > > > maybe next time. I noticed a pretty good chunk of extra writing was
   > > > included that wasn't in the copy I have from the 1970s, though. Good
   > > > stuff if you're interested in Cassidy, but not particularly for the
   > > > general reader, of course.
  > >
  > > That expanded version was published in 1981.
  > > Good to know that you are up-to-date, Will
  > >
  > > Dave
  > >
  > > ###Could be why they were asking so much money for
  > > the copy I gazed at! It hasn't been reprinted since 1981?
  > > Will
 >
 > No, Will, it has been in print continually since 1981 ...
 >
 > Dave<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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