Free Spirits Annals of the Insurgent Imagination 1982 City Lights RARE Anthology

Description: Free Spirits: Annals of the Insurgent Imagination (1982 City Lights Softcover)A literary anthology featuring dozens of contemporary writers tackling poetry, politics, history, occult, phenomenology, surrealism and much more ...The insurgent imagination is the catalyst that draws together libertarian cultural currents in America and around the world. As old certainties vanish and institutions crumble, the free spirits in these annals refuse to succumb to the terrors of man, affirming instead the power to act, to risk, to invent the highest reality. If the 1960s was a decade of hopeful vision and the 1970s one of intensive focus on special issues by isolated radicals, today's perilous times call for a new unity of revolutionary cultural forces to link daily life with all the arts.This could be called a surrealist anthology in the sense meant by André Breton when he called for the exaltation of reality rather than the depreciation of it. In 1929 there appeared, in the Belgian journal "Varietes," a now famous surrealist map of the world. Totally missing from it was the United States, then recognized as a utilitarian, positivist, and jingoistic backwater.Today, however, many of the constellations investigated by the first surrealists are rising high over the American horizon ...Rare Vintage Softcover / City Lights Books / 1982 / Very Good Condition

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