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How I became one of the invisible [electronic resource] / David Rattray ; Edited by Chris Kraus ; Expanded and with an introduction by Robert Dewhurst ; Afterword by Rachel Kushner

Author
Rattray, David
Published
South Pasadena, CA, Semiotext(e), [2019]
Edition
New edition.
Physical Description
423 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Additional Creators
Kraus, Chris
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Summary
Since its first publication in 1992, David Rattray's How I Became One of the Invisible has functioned as a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition running through Western civilization from Pythagoras to In Nomine music to Hölderlin and Antonin Artaud. Rattray not only excavated this tradition, he embodied and lived it. He studied at Harvard and the Sorbonne but remained a poet, outside the academy. His stories "Van" and "The Angel" chronicle his travels in southern Mexico with his friend, the poet Van Buskirk, and his adventures after graduating from Dartmouth in the mid-1950s. Eclipsed by the more mediagenic Beat writers during his lifetime, Rattray has become a powerful influence on contemporary artists and writers.
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9781635900729 (paperback)
1635900727 (paperback)
Note
First published in 1992.
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 423).
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