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:: In 1966 a homeless teenage drifter wanders without a safety net for 22,000 miles through a lost America. While seeking highest perfect wisdom Randy Rhody finds brief notoriety as a vagabond poet, followed by publishing success, before careening beyond the limits of language.

:: On an aimless journey, he encounters counterculture legends before most were widely known: Karl Shapiro, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Julius Orlovsky, Carl Davidson, Steve Abbott, S. Clay Wilson, d. a. levy, Janis Joplin, Emmett Grogan, Billy Orcutt, the Diggers, Peter Coyote (Cohen), Randy Wicker, Tuli Kupferberg, Valerie Solanas, Abbie Hoffman.

:: Here is a roadside view of the Sixties never glimpsed by historians, journalists, or celebrities — Chicago’s Wells Street, the mimeograph-revolution waged by Cleveland poets, a midwest freight train, an outlaw Route 66, the Sunset Strip, Hells Angels, the San Francisco Diggers serving daily meals, a New Mexico jail, the Central Park Easter Be-In, a head shop at the epicenter of St Marks Place in the East Village, and the travesty of post-Summer-of-Love Haight-Ashbury.

:: travel map
:: comparative timeline 1966 -1967
:: personae the famous, the notorious, & the complete unknowns
:: photo blog visual supplement

:: in Beatdom literary journal

Allen Ginsberg in Nebraska
The year is 1966.
World-renowned beatnik poet Allen Ginsberg visits the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, shocking and amusing students and professors.
At their apartment, 18-year-old Randy Rhody and his roommates host a grand party for the famous beatnik and his retinue.
https://www.beatdom.com/beatdom-21-an-overview/

:: in The Writing on the Wall

Poetry anthology includes work by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth, Ishmael Reed, Tuli Kupferberg, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Clarence Major, Peter Seeger, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Edgar Lee Masters, Delmore Schwartz, Gregory Corso, Douglas Blazek, Leroi Jones, D. A. Levy, Julius Lester, Randy Rhody, e. e. cummings, Kenneth Patchen, Chief Joseph, Peter La Farge, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Charles Bukowski, Walter Lowenfels, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Robert Bly, Emily Dickinson, Archibald Macleish, and Woody Guthrie.

The Writing on the Wall

Hardcover, July 1969.
Walter Lowenfels, editor.
Doubleday, publisher.

ISBN-10: 0385017448.
ISBN-13: 978-0385017442.
WorldCat OCLC 70233707.