"BEAT" But Not Beaten!
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Andy Clausen spent much of his adult life as a workingman and itinerant poet and author, whose friendships with Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Ray Bremser, Jack Micheline, Charles Bukowski, Neal Cassady and many other seminal figures of the Beat Generation formed the substance for his brilliant and unconventional memoir, “BEAT: The Latter Days of the Beat Generation, a Firsthand Account”. When he went looking for a publisher, he was told "No one cares about the Beats anymore!” or, often, received no response at all. Then, Autonomedia, an exciting, eclectic, and well-respected press, publisher of many important radical books, accepted it. Alas, as a medium-sized press, they are in no financial position to send him on a book tour to promote sales.
Andy has commitments from 5 venues in Boulder-Denver & a Las Vegas reading in the works. Queries are being tendered to places in between. These readings will promote the book and also help pay for the trip. He will be accompanied by his companion, poet Pamela Twining, intending to travel by rented automobile during late July and early August. Car rental, gas, tolls, food and occasional lodging (camping will be a big part of the trip), as well as home rent and bills must be paid. Book sales will also contribute to the financing of the tour.
Give them a chance to proliferate & circulate “BEAT”. Even the smallest contribution gratefully accepted. Anyone who contributes $20 or more will receive a signed copy of “BEAT”; a contribution of $40 or more and you will receive two signed copies, one for you and one to give as a gift. $60 or more will get you two books - plus Pamela Twining's beautiful erotic poetry book, “A Thousand Years of Wanting” (Shivastan Press), crafted in Nepal of hand-made paper. Thanking you in advance.
“Andy Clausen begins the task that should have been done long ago, of demythologizing the Beats. We in the generation that followed need to share our stories of what these literary and cultural pioneers were actually like--to give their human face, even if at times there was as much darkness as light attached to them. Clausen's book is to be commended for its honesty and forthrightness--which was, after all, the principal ethic that the Beats taught us. He gives a marvelous human portrait of the Beats, in many ways making them more lovable as real people than as the mythic icons they have been for too long. Job well done, Andy!”
~ Review of “BEAT” by Gerald Nicosia, author of “One & Only: The Untold Story of ‘On The Road’”
“Andy Clausen has written a wild, wide-spirited, and thoughtful memoir of his life as an after-Beat, full of authentic intensity, joy, and sad insight into America of our era. Clausen, 74, has lived the life of a poet many dreamed of but few were able to—big readings featured with most of the core Beat writers, travels with Ginsberg, roommates with Corso, teaching at Naropa, eking it out at the track with Micheline, all while working construction for family bread. This memoir is as if an everyman lumbered into the café in the middle of the Beat revolution, then set out on his own spiritual search for some honest value in the belly of a fun-filled, red-scared, America on a Beat vacation from its Puritan roots. In some ways, it was the dream life, and in others, particularly the economic, a nightmare.” ~ Review of "BEAT" by Bruce Isaacson
Andy has commitments from 5 venues in Boulder-Denver & a Las Vegas reading in the works. Queries are being tendered to places in between. These readings will promote the book and also help pay for the trip. He will be accompanied by his companion, poet Pamela Twining, intending to travel by rented automobile during late July and early August. Car rental, gas, tolls, food and occasional lodging (camping will be a big part of the trip), as well as home rent and bills must be paid. Book sales will also contribute to the financing of the tour.
Give them a chance to proliferate & circulate “BEAT”. Even the smallest contribution gratefully accepted. Anyone who contributes $20 or more will receive a signed copy of “BEAT”; a contribution of $40 or more and you will receive two signed copies, one for you and one to give as a gift. $60 or more will get you two books - plus Pamela Twining's beautiful erotic poetry book, “A Thousand Years of Wanting” (Shivastan Press), crafted in Nepal of hand-made paper. Thanking you in advance.
“Andy Clausen begins the task that should have been done long ago, of demythologizing the Beats. We in the generation that followed need to share our stories of what these literary and cultural pioneers were actually like--to give their human face, even if at times there was as much darkness as light attached to them. Clausen's book is to be commended for its honesty and forthrightness--which was, after all, the principal ethic that the Beats taught us. He gives a marvelous human portrait of the Beats, in many ways making them more lovable as real people than as the mythic icons they have been for too long. Job well done, Andy!”
~ Review of “BEAT” by Gerald Nicosia, author of “One & Only: The Untold Story of ‘On The Road’”
“Andy Clausen has written a wild, wide-spirited, and thoughtful memoir of his life as an after-Beat, full of authentic intensity, joy, and sad insight into America of our era. Clausen, 74, has lived the life of a poet many dreamed of but few were able to—big readings featured with most of the core Beat writers, travels with Ginsberg, roommates with Corso, teaching at Naropa, eking it out at the track with Micheline, all while working construction for family bread. This memoir is as if an everyman lumbered into the café in the middle of the Beat revolution, then set out on his own spiritual search for some honest value in the belly of a fun-filled, red-scared, America on a Beat vacation from its Puritan roots. In some ways, it was the dream life, and in others, particularly the economic, a nightmare.” ~ Review of "BEAT" by Bruce Isaacson
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Pamela Twining
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Woodstock, NY
