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Beat Literature & History The Beat Generation may be most famous for Jack Kerouac (On the Road), Allen Ginsberg (Howl), and William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), but in fact it claims an amazing number of inspired writers. Delve into our complete selection of fine books by and about the Beats and their accomplices —among them,  Neal Cassady, Herbert Huncke, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Ted Joans, John Clellon Holmes, Anne Waldman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Robert Duncan, Philip Lamantia, Bob Kaufman, Bob Creeley, Kenneth Rexroth. Browse your favorite author, search for a specific title, or just look through the entire selection of over 200 Beat books, presented alphabetically by author. Books in this online selection represent only a sliver of what we offer in the store. If you've got a particular book in mind and want to check on its availability, call us at 415-362-8193.   William S. Burroughs   |  Neal Cassady   |  Gregory Corso   |  Diane di Prima   |  Lawrence Ferlinghetti   |  Allen Ginsberg   |  Bob Kaufman   |  Jack Kerouac   |  Michael McClure   |  Gary Snyder

<<< 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >>>     sort list by title | author Pieces of a Song Selected Poems Diane Di Prima "Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous bohemian, classically educated and twentieth-century radical, her writing, informed by Buddhist equanimity, is exemplary in... Subterraneans Jack Kerouac Centering around the tempestuous breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox– two denizens of the 1950s San Francisco underground– The Subterraneans is a tale of dark alleys and smoky rooms, of artists, visionaries, and adventurers... The Job Interviews with William S. Burroughs William S. Burroughs, Daniel Odier Perspectives on Scientology, the police, sex, drugs, and death. The Western Lands William S. Burroughs "The Western Lands illuminates and puts into perspective the whole body of work of the Grand Iconoclast, who has altered the concept of the novel more powerfully – some would say 'violently' – than any other writer of his time." Wild Dreams of a New Beginning Lawrence Ferlinghetti Written in the 1970s, this volume combines two earlier books: Who Are We Now? and Landscapes of Living & Dying. Doctor Sax Faust Part Three Jack Kerouac Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and textture of his boyhood in Lowell as he relates Jack's adventures with this cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom, Dr. Sax. Meadowlark West Philip Lamantia Meadowlark West is the final complete collection of poetry written by legendary surrealist and beat-era author, Philip Lamantia (1927-2005). It is, in many ways, his masterpiece... The Burroughs File William S. Burroughs Trenchant writings by that sardonic ""hombre invisible,"" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot... Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960 Pocket Poets Number 18 Allen Ginsberg "Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages for yr own joy." Many of Ginsberg's most famous poems. Wake-up nightmares in Lower East Side, musings in public library, across the U.S. in dream auto, drunk in old Havana, brooding in Mayan... Plutonian Ode:And Other Poems 1977-1980 Pocket Poets Number 40 Allen Ginsberg Plutonian Ode: Title poem combines scientific info on 24,000-year cycle of the Great Year compared with equal half-life of Plutonium waste, accounting Homeric formula for appeasing underground millionaire Pluto Lord of Death, jack in the gnostic box... Heaven and Other Poems Jack Kerouac Donald Allen, the late great editor of the Evergreen Review at Grove Press and editor of the seminal anthology, The New American Poetry, first met Jack Kerouac in 1956 when he and Allen Ginsberg came to visit at his West Village apartment... Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle Pocket Poets Number 8 Gregory Corso "Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and pure, in accordance with Corso’s individual (therefore universal) desire." – Allen Ginsberg The Ancient Rain Poems, 1956-1978 Bob Kaufman A collection of early rap poetry from "the black American Rimbaud." Composed on the Tongue A Book of Literary Conversations 1967-1977 Allen Ginsberg Spanning a decade of Ginsberg's life in letters, essays, and lectures, this book includes journal entries on his encounters with Ezra Pound, transcribed conversations with other poets and artists, and notes from Ginsberg's Spiritual Poetics course... <<< 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >>>