Two Novels: You Didn't Even Try; Imaginary Speeches for a Brazen Head
Somerville, MA: Zephyr Press, 1985. First Limited Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. "The minds, the glittering personalities and eccentrics of Berkeley and San Francisco society come to life in these two novels by Beat poet Philip Whalen. Set in the late fifties and early sixties, You Didn't Even Try and Imaginary Speeches for a Brazen Head provide a remarkable window on the nascence of what would later be called the counterculture..... More
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