Beat me

"Beat once wrote to me: "Susan, I want to compact the world and frame it in a single image" ... and this is exactly what I tried to do, to compact his world of imagination and his thirst for sensuality into a monograph that gathers together his vision, and his intuitive, complex, mysterious, unreal, and wild existence nourished by his passion for ethereal female beauty. The result is a melancholic volume packed with emotion"--page 5.