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By David Stephen Calonne

The non secular mind's eye of the Beats is the 1st entire examine to discover the function of esoteric, occult, magical, theosophical, Gnostic, Hindu and Buddhist traditions within the paintings of 11 significant Beat authors. the outlet bankruptcy discusses Kenneth Rexroth and Robert Duncan as predecessors and significant impacts at the religious orientation of the Beats. David Stephen Calonne attracts comparisons through the ebook among a number of the ways in the direction of non secular issues of person Beat writers - for instance, Burroughs registered major objections to Buddhism, whereas Ginsberg and Kerouac committed significant time to learning Buddhist heritage and texts. This booklet additionally makes a speciality of authors who've frequently been ignored in Beat reviews - Diane di Prima, Bob Kaufman and Philip Whalen. furthermore, numerous understudied works similar to Gregory Corso's 'The Geometric Poem' are given shut recognition. Calonne additionally introduces vital subject matters from the background of heterodox spirituality - Manicheanism, alchemy and Tarot - and demonstrates how inextricably those rules formed the Beat literary imagination.

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