Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim

by Seymour Krim and Mark Cohen

Book Overview

In 1961, Beat writer Seymour Krim set Greenwich Village on its ear with a slim volume of essays that featured an unleashed voice, a brash title, and a foreword by Norman Mailer. James Baldwin called Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer an "extraordinary volume." Saul Bellow published an excerpt in his journal The Noble Savage, and Mailer saluted Krim's jazzy prose with its "shifts and shatterings of mood." Despite such praise and critical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815609485
• ISBN13: 9780815609483
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.0"