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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 title | author Earth House Hold Technical Notes and Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries Gary Snyder "Technical notes and queries to fellow dharma revolutionaries." – Gary Snyder The Secret Meaning of Things Lawrence Ferlinghetti Six long poems including "Assassination Raga" -- on the death of the Kennedys. A Coney Island of the Mind Poems Lawrence Ferlinghetti The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's Into the Night Life. In it, Ferlinghetti expresses the way he felt during a short period in the 1950s. 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. Planet News 1961—1967 First Edition Allen Ginsberg San Francisco: City Lights Books, (1968). First Edition, letterpress, 16mo, 144 pages. As new in printed wrappers. Starting from San Francisco Lawrence Ferlinghetti The poet's early travels in North America, South America, and Europe. Includes some psychedelia. Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness Bob Kaufman Poems and prose. Contains odes to Charles Mingus, Hart Crane, Albert Camus, and other alienated outsiders. The Yage Letters William S. Burroughs The Yage Letters: an early epistolary novel by William S. Burroughs, whose 1952 account of himself as Junkie, published under the pseudonym William Lee, ended "Yage may be the final fix." In letters to Allen Ginsberg, an unknown young poet in New... Her Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A surreal semiautobiographical blackbook record of a vagabond period in my life, in that mindless, timeless state most romantics pass through, confusing flesh madonnas with spiritual ones." – Lawrence Ferlinghetti Happy Birthday of Death Gregory Corso The notorious "Bomb" is a foldout in this cornucopia of ironic wisdom. Howl and Other Poems Pocket Poets Number 4 Allen Ginsberg The epigraph for Howl is from Walt Whitman: "Unscrew the locks from the doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" Announcing his intentions with this ringing motto, Allen Ginsberg published a volume of poetry which broke so many social... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11