East Hill Farm
Subtitle: seasons with Allen Ginsberg
By: Gordon Ball
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781582437767
Subjects: Beat generation; Homes and haunts; Farm life
Description: "This was Allen Ginsberg, Gordon Ball declares after recounting intimate moments with the cultural icon and beloved Beat Generation poet on East Hill Farm, outside Cherry Valley, New York. During the late 1960s, when peace, drugs, and free love were direct challenges to conventional society, Allen Ginsberg, treasurer of Committee on Poetry, Inc., funded what he hoped was a haven for comrades in distress in rural upstate New York. First described as an uninspiring, dilapidated four-bedroom house with acres of untended land, including the graves of its first residents, East Hill Farm became home to those who sought pastoral enlightenment in the presence of Ginsbergs brilliance and generosity.