Minutes to go [by] Sinclair Beiles [and others]

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Published 1968 by Beach Books, Texts & Documents in [San Francisco] .
Written in English

Subjects:

• American poetry -- 20th century

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Edition Notes

Contributions	Beiles, Sinclair Simon Maurice
Classifications
LC Classifications	PS614 M5
The Physical Object
Pagination	63p.
Number of Pages	63
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL18881863M

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Upton Sinclair () was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His family came from the ruined Southern aristocracy. His father, Upton Beall Sinclair, was a liquor salesman and an alcoholic - he drank himself to death. Priscilla Harden, Sinclair's mother, came from a relatively wealthy family - one of her sisters was married to a millionaire. Naked Lunch, which Beiles would later publish as senior editor at the Olympia Press. While staying at the notorious Beat Hotel in Paris, Beiles, Gysin, Burroughs, and Gregory Corso created Minutes To Go (), the first book to use the “cut-up” poetic technique .

When he looked at the patterns he had accidentally created in the newspapers, he noticed that the sliced-up text and images offered interesting juxtapositions. He soon produced a book called Minutes to Go with Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and the South African poet Sinclair Beiles that employed the concept. Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, – Janu ) was an American novelist, short story writer and , he became the first writer from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.". Gregory Nunzio Corso (Ma – Janu ) was an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs). Early life Born Nunzio Corso at St. Vincent’s hospital (later called the Poets’ hospital after Dylan Thomas died there), Corso later selected the name “Gregory” as a confirmation name.

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