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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

<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >>>     sort list by author | publication date Some of the Dharma Jack Kerouac Notes on Buddhist study and practice, poems, blues, haiku, conversations, prayers, meditations, journal entries, sketches, stories, thoughts on writing, fragments of letters, epiphanies and more... Speed and Kentucky Ham William S. Burroughs Jr. A methedrine-inspired odyssey, a painfully candid exploration of the horizons of the speed freak's world, from the drug-hazed fantasy of New York's infamous East Village to the terrifying reality of a Federal narcotics hospital, Burroughs Jr.'s two novels Spontaneous Mind Selected Interviews, 1958-1996 Allen Ginsberg From his conversation with the conservative William F. Buckley on PBS to his testimony at the Chicago Seven trial to his passionate riffs on Cezanne, Blake, Whitman, and Pound, the interviews collected in Spontaneous Mind, chronologically arranged and... Starting from San Francisco Lawrence Ferlinghetti The poet's early travels in North America, South America, and Europe. Includes some psychedelia. 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... T.V. Baby Poem First Edition Allen Ginsberg San Francisco, Beach Books, Texts and Documents, (1968). First Edition, 4to, 16 pages. Fine in printed brown stapled wrappers. Tau By Philip Lamantia and Journey to the End By John Hoffman Pocket Poets Number 59 John Hoffman, Philip Lamantia Two new books from the classic Beat period: mystical poems by Philip Lamantia and the long-lost "Six Gallery" poems by legendary hipster John Hoffman. These Are My Rivers New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Four decades of poetry and more than fifty pages of new work and play. The Ticket That Exploded William S. Burroughs The grand "cut-up" trilogy that started with The Soft Machine and continued with Nova Express reaches its percussive climax with this novel. The Town and the City Jack Kerouac Inspired by his idol, Thomas Wolfe, Kerouac explores the emotional territory of his boyhood through the five sons and three daughters of the Martin family... Travels With Ginsberg A Postcard Book, Allen Ginsberg Photographs 1944-1997 Bill Morgan Allen Ginsberg was a serious shutterbug who delighted in taking candid snapshots of friends and fellow writers, but up until now readers have had little chance to consider the "poetic" world of his photographs. Here in the form of twenty detachable... Trip Trap Haiku on the Road Jack Kerouac, Albert Saijo, Lew Welch This newly-revised edition-originally published in 1973-of the haiku Jack Kerouac, Albert Saijo, and Lew Welch jotted down on the road from San Francisco to New York in 1959, are dense, earthy incarnations of life on the road: "A coral colored... Tristessa Jack Kerouac Tristessa's a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady. Turtle Island Gary Snyder Turtle Island won Gary Snyder the Pulitzer back in 1975, and remains, to this observer, his most completely realized work. The title comes from a Native American term for the continent of North America, and Snyder wants to reclaim the organic and... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >>>