Title:
In my life : encounters with the Beatles
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Robert Cording, Shelli Jankowski-Smith, E.J. Miller Laino.
Edition:
1st Fromm International ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Fromm International Pub. Corp., 1998.
Physical Description:
294 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780880641920
Abstract:
"Fiction, recollections, and poetry in which the Beatles and their songs play a pivotal role, showing how the Beatles have affected us all." Contributors include Greil Marcus, Stefany Reich-Silber, Norman Paul Hyett, Timothy Leary, Robert Sullivan, Tom Wolfe, Allen Ginsberg, Leonard Bernstein, Philip Larkin, Donald Hall, Gary Soto, Philip Norman, and more.
Contents:
One, two, three, four! Fab four tour Deutschland : Hamburg, 1961 / David Wojahn -- From a letter to Ken Horton / Stuart Sutcliffe -- Introduction from The Beatles with Lacan / Henry W. Sullivan -- Hello, goodbye / Stefany Reich-Silber -- Another version of the chair / Greil Marcus -- Portland Coliseum / Allen Ginsberg -- Waiting on the Beatles / Norman Paul Hyett -- Dunraven School, South London, 1964 / Rosalind Brackenbury -- You say you want a revolution / Kay Sloan.
You've got to hide your love away. Not a second time / Nancy Fox -- Barbershop / Larry Schug -- Beatle wig / Joyce E. Peseroff -- A hard night's day / Janna Bialek -- Annus mirabilis / Philip Larkin -- Sod Manila! / Eric Gamalinda -- Playland / Richard Foerster -- 489 East 11th, Apt. 3C / Pam Bernard.
Relax and float downstream. Thank God for the Beatles / Timothy Leary -- First party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels / Allen Ginsberg -- "Cloud" from The electric kool-aid acid test / Tom Wolfe -- The yellow sub / Joseph Wollenweber -- The Beatles in Tonypandy / Euron Griffith.
You won't see me. Expatriates / Shelli Jankowski-Smith -- The moment of truth / Terry Watada -- Roots / Mark Halliday -- A different bag / Larry Neal -- He love you (yeah, yeah, yeah) / Hillary Rollins -- Dizzy girls in the sixties / Gary Soto -- America the Beatle-full / Jacques Wakefield.
Don't let me down. The endless days of sixties sunshine / Dave Smith -- The girl who sang with the Beatles / Robert Hemenway -- The ballad of Aunt Helen / Timothy McCall -- Mr. Champinoux meets the Beatles / Ellen Zabaly -- The Frisco gigs / Susan Terris -- 1973 / Susan Stemont -- Drive my car / Tobi Taylor -- Timeline / Courtney Davis.
What do you see when you turn out the light? The assassination of John Lennon as depicted by the Madame Toussaud Wax Museum / David Wojahn -- Working at Rolling Stone : December 8, 1980 / Lisa Clark -- Liverpool echo / Carol Ann Duffy -- Prologue from Shout! / Philip Norman -- Why I didn't like the Beatles / Priscilla Webster-Williams -- Shake a tail feather / Lisa Williams Kline -- The last Beatlemaniac / Ed Davis -- Following the genius with four heads; or, Why I became a composer / James Russell Smith.
And in the end. Introduction to The Beatles / Leonard Bernstein -- I wanna be your man / Robert Sullivan -- Imagine / Laura Gamache -- 1996 / Ellen Kahaner -- from The old life / Donald Hall -- Family reunion / E.J. Miller Laino -- My mother met John Lennon / Robert Wallace -- from The duplex planet / David B. Greenberger -- Beatles 4ever / Chris Bruton -- Splice / E.J. Miller Laino -- When the last Beatle dies / Francine Witte.