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<<< 1 2 3     sort list by author | publication date Postcards from the Underground Portraits of the Beat Era Larry Keenan In 1965, Larry Keenan spent over a year photographing the Beats-in their homes and with their families and friends. His portraits constitute a unique chronology and reportage of this era, and many of these photos have since become iconic images that... 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... Ring of Bone Collected Poems (New & Expanded Edition) Lew Welch A new and expanded edition of the classic go-to collection of Lew Welch's poetry, a must for both fans and new readers. Robert Duncan in San Francisco Michael Rumaker A revealing portrait of a major poet of the SF Renaissance and a gripping account of late '50s gay life. 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... Scattered Poems Pocket Poets Number 28 Jack Kerouac Spontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including "San Francisco Blues," the variant texts of "Pull My Daisy," and American haiku. The Scripture of the Golden Eternity Pocket Poets Number 51 Jack Kerouac These classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans, and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the... 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. Tracking the Serpent Journeys into Four Continents Janine Pommy Vega These are the true-life adventures of a woman who ranges over four continents, endeavoring to go beyond the limits of ordinary life. Recovering from an accident, she goes to Glastonbury, where she finds energy portrayed in ancient earthworks as a... 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... The Yage Letters Redux Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris In January 1953, William Burroughs began a seven-month expedition into the jungles of South America, ostensibly to find yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. But Burroughs also cast his anthropological-satiric eye over the local regimes... You'll Be Okay My Life with Jack Kerouac Edie Kerouac-Parker "We’ve officially entered what might as well be called Jack Kerouac Awareness Month. It’s the 50th anniversary of the publication of 'On the Road,' and the commemorations include . . . a memoir, 'You’ll Be Okay,' from Kerouac’s first wife." – NY Times <<< 1 2 3