Excess and tragedy are the stuff of music legend, but it is only with hindsight that deeper patterns emerge. None of these is more striking than the deaths at age 27 of some of the greatest musicians of our time. Jimi Hendrix. Janis Joplin. Jim Morrison. Brian Jones. Kurt Cobain. Founding bluesman Robert Johnson. All died at 27. Their stories, as well as those of ill-fated members of the Grateful Dead, The Stooges, Badfinger, Big Star, Minutemen, Echo &amp; the Bunnymen, and The Mars Volta, are here presented for the first time as a profound and interlocking web that reaches beyond coincidence to the roots of artistic causality and fate. The 27s is the first comprehensive account of the lives and legacies of the thirty-four musicians who make up (to date) rock’s most notorious myth. It is also a capsule history of rock &amp; roll, twisting and turning through decades and genres, unfurling layers of numerology, philosophy, and astrology along the way. The text is complemented by compelling and multifaceted artwork that brings a nonlinear graphic-novel edge to this major contribution to the study of rock culture. The 27s also include crooner Jesse Belvin ("Earth Angel," "Goodnight My Love"), Rudy Lewis of the Drifters, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Malcolm Hale of Spanky And Our Gang, Alan Wilson from Canned Heat, Arlester Christian of Dyke And the Blazers, Jim Morrison, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan of the Grateful Dead, Pete Ham of Badfinger, Gary Thain of Uriah Heep and Keef Hartley Band, Roger Lee Durham of Bloodstone, Helmut Köllen of Triumvirat, Chris Bell of Big Star, D. Boon of Minutemen, Pete de Freitas of Echo &amp; the Bunnymen, Mia Zapata of the Gits, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, Kristin Pfaff of Hole, Raymond "Freaky Tah" Rogers of Lost Boyz, Sean McCabe of Ink &amp; Dagger, Jeremy Michael Ward of De Facto and The Mars Volta, Bryan Ottoson of American Head Charge, and Valentin Elizalde.

The 27s: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll

Arts & Photography

Segalstad, Eric

Music

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The Windy Passage from Nostalgia

Literature & Fiction

Grossinger, Richard

Contemporary

Synthesis

Enslin, Theodore

Poetry

The Girl With the Stone In Her Lap

MCKINNEY, IRENE

Full title is: The Unfinished Business of Doctor Hermes: Cosmic Shootout at the Arabian-American Revival Church. PARTIAL list of keywords: Lincoln; Martian Express; Baseball voodoo; Middle Ages; First Earth War; Big Bang; Star Invasion; Indo-European; Malpractice; Detroit Pentecostal; No Soap. Radio; Fear of Flying; Sphyx; etc.

The Unfinished Business of Doctor Hermes: Cosmic Shootout at the Arabian-American Revival Church

Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, where she participated in the emerging Beat movement. She spent some time in California at Stinson Beach and Topanga Canyon, returned to New York City and eventually moved to San Francisco permanently. Di Prima was a bridge figure between the Beat movement and the later hippies, as well as between East Coast and West Coast artists. She edited The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre and founder of the Poets Press. On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity by the United States government due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre and the newspaper The Floating Bear. In 1961 she was actually arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear. In 1966, she spent some time at Millbrook with Timothy Leary's psychedelic community & printed the first two editions of "Psychodelic Prayers" by Leary in Spring 1966. In 1969, she wrote a fictionalized, erotic account detailing her experience in the Beat movement titled Memoirs of a Beatnik. From 1974 to 1997, di Prima taught Poetry at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, of the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. In 2001, she published Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years. In the late 1960s, she moved permanently to California, where she has lived ever since. Here, di Prima became involved with the Diggers and studied Buddhism, Sanskrit, Gnosticism and alchemy. Her selected poems, Pieces of a Song, was published in 1990 and a memoir, Recollections of My Life as a Woman, in 2001. She is also a prose writer, memoirist, playwright, social justice activist and teacher.

Selected Poems, 1956-1975

Di Prima, Diane

Book by Kevin Kerrane and Richard Grossinger.

Baseball, I gave you all the best years of my life

Kevin Kerrane

Ranger

The new astrology finds its origin in three sources.  The first is classical Astrology, here expressed by its finest contemporary voice, Dane Rudhyar, in previously unavailable articles on progressed life cycles.  The second, Astrosophy, is represented by several authors, including its pioneer, Willi Sucher; it taps the cosmic sources of all astrologies.  The third, suggested here by William Lonsdale’s studies of planetary aspects and asteroids, is an inward attunement to the star script and our own place in the stars.  Astrology moves in the depths of the unknown cosmos, always in touch with fundamental correspondences of creation.  Any given astrology forms itself from an image of this timeless movement.

Star rhythms: Readings in a living astrology (Io ; 27)

Religion & Spirituality

William Lonsdale

Occult & Paranormal

This children's classic, first published in 1943, relates the travels and adventures of a carousel horse. Gigi is the favorite horse of the children who ride the carousel in the Prater in old Vienna. When WWI breaks out, the carousel is dismantled and Gigi finds himself on his way to a small merry-go-round in Paris. Further adventures take him to London and eventually to America. On each carousel, Gigi forms strong friendships with children whom he dearly misses when he is forced to move on. (Of course carousel horses can talk with children who have not yet outgrown the saddle). The story ends with a happy surprise that will delight the young readers who have also befriended this special merry-go-round horse. Although it is a children's story, it is one for anyone to enjoy who can still remember holding serious conversations with a favorite carousel horse.

Gigi: The Story of a Merry-Go-Round Horse

Children's Books

Elizabeth Foster

Ilse Bischoff

Animals

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