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An Elegy To Dispel Gloom [After the Assassinations of Mayor George Moscone of San Francisco and City Supervisor Harvey Milk November 27, 1978] Lawrence Ferlinghetti Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. 1978. Folded broadside, one of only 50 copies of the second printing (marked 25 cents) after a first printing of 50 copies (marked 15 cents). Photocopies made by Ferlinghetti at the Postal Instant Press in San Francisco. Minor toning to the edges, else a fine copy of this very scarce item.

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The Beat Generation in New York A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac's City Bill Morgan Set off on the eternal trail of the Beat experience in the city that inspired many of Jack Kerouac's best-loved novels including On the Road, Vanity of Duluoz, The Town and the City, and Desolation Angels. This is the ultimate guide to Kerouac's New York.

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Memoirs of a Beatnik Diane di Prima Long regarded as an underground classic for its gritty and unabashedly erotic portrayal of the Beat years, Memoirs of a Beatnik is a moving account of a powerful woman artist coming of age sensually and intellectually in a movement dominated by a...

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San Francisco Beat Talking with the Poets David Meltzer San Francisco Beat is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America-somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s-was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and...

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Beat Poets Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Carmela Ciuraru This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century countercultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish...

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The Beat Generation in San Francisco A Literary Guidebook Bill Morgan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti A blow-by-blow unearthing of the places where the Beat writers first came to full bloom: the flat where Ginsberg wrote "Howl;" Gary Snyder's zen cottage in Berkeley; the ghostly railroad yards where Kerouac and -Cassady toiled; the pads where Jack &...

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The Portable Beat Reader Ann Charters The Portable Beat Reader is an excellent and thorough study of the Beat Generation, compiled and edited by Ann Charters, biographer of Jack Kerouac and one of our most notable experts on Beat literature and ideas. This lively work of scholarship goes...

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Beat Generation The Lost Work Jack Kerouac Beat Generation is a play about tension, about friendship, and about karma — what it is and how you get it. It begins one fine morning with a few friends, honest laborers some of them, some close to being down-and-out, passing around a bottle of...

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BEAT Photographs of the Beat Era Christopher Felver There has never before been a book filled with this many photographs of equal Beat Era personalities -- the most comprehensive photography collection of the people, players, and friends of the Beat era in American literature.

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The Beat Book Writings from the Beat Generation Anne Waldman The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real...

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The Beats A Graphic History Paul Buhle, Harvey Pekar I've read a lot of Beat books in my time here at City Lights, but none are quite as fun as this graphic history. The perfect collection for those who think they've heard all the stories about Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, et al. The Beats also provides...

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Beat Atlas A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America Bill Morgan The ultimate tour guide for those interested in the Beats and their travels "on the road."

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The Beat Generation & the Angry Young Men Gene Feldman, Max Gartenberg This is a celebration of the anti-establishment literature of the 1950 s. Here you will find the works of Jack Kerouac, Williams Burroughs, Allen Ginsburg, Kingsley Amis, J. P. Donleavy, Norman Mailer, Colin Wilson and many more. In America they were...

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The Beats Abroad A Global Guide to the Beat Generation Bill Morgan The international phase of the Beat Generation's story, documenting their travels and the tremendous influence it had on their writing.

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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee David Treuer A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.

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