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Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps
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Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps Paperback - 1990

by Emmett Grogan; Peter Coyote (Illustrator)


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"Ringolevio" is the memorable tale of Emmett Grogan and the Diggers, the irreverent urban guerrillas anti masters and masters of street theater who made San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury a home, putting on Grateful Dead dances in Golden Gate Park, ladling out free stew to all comers in the park's Panhandle, and keeping the peace with the cops. While Kesey's Merry Prankster's were off tripping the light fantastic, the Diggers were transforming the Haight from a seedy district of abandoned Victorian houses into an evanescent paradise on earth.

For anyone who thinks that those were days only of peace, love and flower power, Ringolevio will be a revelation, as it evokes the gritty urban sensibility that supplied the backbone to the community's free flights of fancy.

Vastly entertaining, Ringolevio is at once high adventure, political screed, social history. and hyperbolic memoir. This classic traces the story of Emmett Grogan, a larger-than-life sixties legend of great controversy, from the streets of New York to the heights of the Haight.

Citadel Underground's edition of Ringolevio features a new introducing by the actor Peter Coyote, one of Grogan's oldest friends, a fellow Digger and a veteran of the San Francisco Mime Troupe.

"The San Francisco Diggers combined Dada street theater with the revolutionary politics of free." Slum-alley saints, they lit up the period by spreading the poetry of love and anarchy with broad strokes of artistic genius. Their free store, communications network of instant offset survival poetry, along with an Indian-inspired consciousness, was the original white light of the era. Emmett Grogan was the hippie warrior par excellence. He was also a junkie, amaniac, a gifted actor, a rebel hero, ...and above all a pain in the ass to all his friends. Ringolevio is half-brilliant." -- Abbie Hoffman

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  • Title Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps
  • Author Emmett Grogan; Peter Coyote (Illustrator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Book Club (BCE/B
  • Pages 495
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Citadel Press, Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date July 1990
  • ISBN 9780806511689 / 0806511680
  • Weight 1.74 lbs (0.79 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.12 x 6.2 x 1.33 in (23.16 x 15.75 x 3.38 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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