Stoned Haight-Ashbury Revisited | Ancient Acid Flashes Back: Poems

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	• Ancient Acid Flashes Back: Poems Adrian C. Louis University of Nevada Press, 2000 - 88 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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very enjoyable book of poems.

this is a cycle of interrelated poems following the life and times of an amiable stoner named naatsi from his days on haight street in san francisco (circa mid-to-late 1960's) on up to south dakota and the clinton years. really these are miniature short stories, poetic vignettes that add up to a deep and satisfying portrait of an individual. nothing pretentious here at all (thank God). poetry that is enjoyable and moving, and actually about something. i highly recommend it.

Stoned Haight-Ashbury Revisited

An exceptional trip down the stoned, yellow-brick road of memory. I was in San Francisco in the late 1960's and these poems brought it all back--yeah, it was a real flashback. The sadness and beauty of it all. If you were there, get this book. Peace.

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Ancient Acid Flashes Back is the true story of one who was there--and remembers--through the cloying marijuana haze, around the jagged edges of L.A. crosstops and crystal cranks, on wild windowpane trips, in the sweetness and sweat of tangled young bodies, in the stench of stale vomit and fresh garbage, in the raucous laughter of desperation and fear. In his remarkable eleventh collection, Adrian Louis beams us back to the Haight during the Summer of Love and beyond on an inimitable tour of the wild side of youth, freedom, and possibility.