Title: A PERSONAL VIEW OF COMMUNES - CIRCA 1974
Product review: Judson Jerome (1927-1991) was an American poet, author, and literary critic, who wrote the poetry column for Writer's Digest for thirty years. However, he was ALSO a "utopian" who moved with his wife and four children to a commune called the "Downhill Farm." He also wrote this sympathetic book in 1974 (subtitled, "Communes and the New Anarchism").This is not a dry, academic study of the subject; in many respects, it is more of a personal "tour" of the field interspersed with his own experiences, developed in chapters such as "What is a Commune?", "From Utopia to Eden," "The New Plentitude," "The New Anarchism," and "The New Consciousness."This is not a useful book for an "overview" of the subject of American communes, but is interesting reading for those interested in intentional communities---particularly those formed in the aftermath of the 1960s.
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