Table of Contents

Section I: Turn On

Chapter 1: Blake Vision in Harlem
Chapter 2: A New Game
Chapter 3: The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost
Chapter 4: Immovable if not Immortal
Chapter 5: St. Anthony’s Fire
Chapter 6: The Road to November
Chapter 7: Ambassador of Psilocybin

Section II: Tune In

Chapter 8: Dear Mr. Monk
Chapter 9: El Hombre Invisible
Chapter 10: Applied Mysticism
Chapter 11: Fallout at the Crimson
Chapter 12: Allen Abroad
Chapter 13: Enter LSD, Exit Harvard

Section III: Drop Out

Chapter 14: “Superheroes wanted for real life movie work.”
Chapter 15: The King of May
Chapter 16: Human Be-In
Chapter 17: Rib & Soul
Chapter 18: “America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.”
Chapter 19: Om Ah Hum

Notes
Thanks and Appreciations
Bibliography
About the Author

Promotional Information

Reviews in: Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, CITY (Rochester’s alt newspaper), Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester Council on the Arts Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, SF Weekly, SF Bay Guardian, Harvard Crimson, Brooklyn Rail, Village Voice, New Yorker, New York Times, Boston Review, Shambhala Sun, The Onion AV Club, High Times, Reality Sandwich
Radio: Interviews on: NPR's Weekend Edition and All Things Considered; The Grateful Dead Hour radio show; Downtown Deb (West Coast radio show), WXXI (Rochester Public Radio)
Web: Promotion on the author's website, www.peterconners.com. Conners has a strong on-line presence. He's had his URL peterconners.com for almost ten years now and had 1096 unique visitors to the site in 2009. Videos of his readings on YouTube have received well over 1000 views. He's also active on Facebook, Goodreads, and RedRoom. We'll pursue sites that focus on pop culture, counter culture, experimentation with drugs.
Academics: Course adoption potential in sociology, `60s history, popular culture, beat generation, and poetry studies. AWP conference.

About the Author

Peter Conners is author of the memoir Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead (Da Capo Press, 2009). His other books include the prose poetry collection Of Whiskey and Winter,the novella Emily Ate the Wind and thecollectionThe Crows Were Laughing in their Trees, published by White Pine Press in spring 2011. He is also editor of PP/FF: An Anthology which was published by Starcherone Books in April 2006. His writing appears regularly in such journals as Poetry International, Mississippi Review, Brooklyn Rail, Fiction International, Salt Hill, Hotel Amerika, Mid-American Review, The Bitter Oleanderand Beloit Fiction Journal and will be included in the Forty Under Forty poetry anthology forthcoming from Yale University Press.

Reviews

"A full account of the two 1960s icons who made it their cause to launch the psychedelic age...an entertaining overview of an era whose echoes still ring."-Kirkus