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She's a bad motorcycle : writers on riding / edited by Geno Zanetti.
Van Pelt Library PS509.M67 S48 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motorcycles--Literary collections.
- Motorcycles.
- Motorcycling--Literary collections.
- Motorcycling.
- Motorcyclists--Literary collections.
- Motorcyclists.
- American literature--20th century.
- American literature.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- She is a bad motorcycle
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thunder's Mouth Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2002]
- Summary:
- Why do People Ride Motorcycles? It's not to get from one place to the other. Thomas Krens, curator of The Art of the Motorcycle, the most popular exhibition ever mounted at the Guggenheim Museum, has written: "For much of society, the motorcycle remains a forbidden indulgence, an object of fantasy, and danger." And of envy. No other machine is thought of as the vehicle -- "the perfect vehicle" Melissa Holbrook Pierson calls it -- of rebellion, lawlessness, and freedom. She's A Bad Motorcycle seeks out the common source of the tribal ferocity of the motorcycle gang and the near solipsistic inwardness of the lone rider. All relish risk and learn to disregard pain in their insistence on a freedom that is a hallmark of their self-created identity. From the genre-defining -- and exploding -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to Hell's Angel, the motorcycle has inspired a startlingly rich and unabashedly romantic body of writing that celebrates the risks and exhilaration of the journey to self-discovery.
- Contents:
- from The Perfect Vehicle / Melissa Holbrook Pierson 1
- from One Man Caravan / Robert E. Fulton 7
- The Grandstand Complex / Horace McCoy 22
- Harleys, Choppers, Full Dressers, and Stolen Wheels / Ralph "Sonny" Barger 32
- from The Motorcycle Diaries / Ernesto "Che" Guevara 46
- Great Escape / Eric Burdon with Jeff Craig 56
- from The Ballad of Easy Earl / Barry Gifford 63
- from All Shot Up / Chester Himes 66
- Life Styles: the Cyclists / Hunter S. Thompson 73
- from Freewheelin Frank / Frank Reynolds with Michael McClure 87
- The Hell's Angels / Tom Wolfe 97
- My Hell's Angel / Diane Wakoski 107
- from Outlaw / John Hall 114
- Biker Blues / Peter Coyote 133
- from Tex / S.E. Hinton 153
- Me and My Bike and Why / Thomas McGuane 157
- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance / Robert M. Pirsig 163
- from Jupiter's Travels / Ted Simon 172
- from Pilgrimage on a Steel Ride / Gary Paulsen 181
- from Storm / Allen Noren 190
- from Speed Tribes / Karl Taro Greenfeld 204
- Brooklyn Logic / Martin Dixon 227
- Pulling My Hair Back Without Any Hands / Erika Lopez 233
- Girl on a Motorcycle / Rachel Kushner 237
- Bikers for Jesus / Denis Johnson 256.
- ISBN:
- 1560253177
- OCLC:
- 45958138
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