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THE RAINMAN'S THIRD CURE
An Irregular Education
The new memoir by the internationally-recognized actor, political strategist and pivotal player in 1960’s counterculture, Peter Coyote. In it, he reflects on the mentors that taught him to balance both his artistic calling and his deep spiritual engagement with the world.
The guiding metaphor in Peter Coyote’s new spiritual biography is drawn from a line in an early Bob Dylan song. For Coyote, the twin forces Dylan identifies as Texas Medicine and Railroad Gin represent the competing forces of the transcendental, inclusive, and ecstatic world of love and the competitive, status-seeking world of wealth and power. The Rainman’s Third Cure is the tale of a young man caught between these apparently antipodal options and the journey that leads him from privileged halls of power to Greenwich Village jazz bars, to jail, to the White House, to government service, and international success on stage and screen.
Expanding his frame beyond his wild ride through the 1960s counterculture that occupied so much of his lauded debut memoir, Sleeping Where I Fall, Coyote provides readers intimate portraits of mentors that shaped him—a violent, intimidating father; a bebop bass player who teaches him that life can be improvised; a Mafia consiglieri who demonstrates to him that men can be bought and manipulated; a gay dancer in Martha Graham’s company who introduces him to Mexico and marijuana; and beat poet Gary Snyder, who introduces him to Zen practice.
What begins as a peripatetic flirtation with Zen deepens into a life-long avocation. Through Zen, Coyote discovers a third option that offers an alternative to love and power’s correlatives of status seeking and material wealth.
An ordained practitioner of Zen Buddhism and a politically engaged actor, Peter Coyote has appeared in over 140 films and worked with directors like Steven Spielberg, Roman Polanski, and Martin Ritt. Coyote has won an Emmy for narrating the award-winning documentary Pacific Century. He has also narrated The West, The Dust Bowl, Prohibition, and The Roosevelts for Ken Burns. In 1993 he was awarded a Pushcart Prize for Carla’s Story, published in Zyzzyva.
Expanding his frame beyond his wild ride through the 1960s counterculture that occupied so much of his lauded debut memoir, Sleeping Where I Fall, Coyote provides readers intimate portraits of mentors that shaped him—a violent, intimidating father; a bebop bass player who teaches him that life can be improvised; a Mafia consiglieri who demonstrates to him that men can be bought and manipulated; a gay dancer in Martha Graham’s company who introduces him to Mexico and marijuana; and beat poet Gary Snyder, who introduces him to Zen practice.
What begins as a peripatetic flirtation with Zen deepens into a life-long avocation. Through Zen, Coyote discovers a third option that offers an alternative to love and power’s correlatives of status seeking and material wealth.
An ordained practitioner of Zen Buddhism and a politically engaged actor, Peter Coyote has appeared in over 140 films and worked with directors like Steven Spielberg, Roman Polanski, and Martin Ritt. Coyote has won an Emmy for narrating the award-winning documentary Pacific Century. He has also narrated The West, The Dust Bowl, Prohibition, and The Roosevelts for Ken Burns. In 1993 he was awarded a Pushcart Prize for Carla’s Story, published in Zyzzyva.
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Published 2015-04-01 by Counterpoint |
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