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Original Essays | November 5, 2009

John Buntin: IMG Notes from the (Bibliographic) Underground



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Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (99 Edition)
by Alan (ed.) Kaufman
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From the Beat poetry of the '50s to the spoken word of today, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry brings readers the words, visions, and extravagant lives of bohemians, beatniks, hippies, punks, and slackers. Like Donald Allen's epochal New American... (read more)
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Revenge of the Lawn, the Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away Revenge of the Lawn, the Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
by Richard Brautigan
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Three unforgettable Brautigan masterpieces reissued in a one-volume omnibus edition. REVENGE OF THE LAWN: Originally published in 1971, these bizarre flashes of insight and humor cover everything from "A High Building in Singapore" to the "Perfect... (read more)
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San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets
by David Meltzer
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San Francisco Beatis 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 enterprise,... (read more)
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Richard Brautigan: A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and the Hawkline Monster Richard Brautigan: A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and the Hawkline Monster
by Richard Brautigan
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Richard Brautigan was the author of ten novels, including a contemporary classic, Trout Fishing in America, nine volumes of poetry, and a collection of stories.Here are three Brautigan novels--A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon and... (read more)
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Reading Jazz Reading Jazz
by David Meltzer
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Has jazz become a white invention, "neutralized" by the attempts of white critics to describe, define, and even defend a black form of expression? Such is the provocative argument that emerges from David Meltzer's compilation of controversial and thought-... (read more)
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An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey

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Beat Thing
by David Meltzer
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Part poetry and part expose, "Beat Thing pays tribute to the wildness of the Beat Generation.... (read more)
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The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing
by Richard Brautigan
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When friends tell me to pick a book for them to read that I really like, this is the one I give most often. Brilliant, wacko, kooky, sharp short stories from one of my favorite writers.... (read more)
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David's Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer David's Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer
by David Meltzer
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One of the most respected poets of the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance periods, David Meltzer has kept alive interest in the interface between jazz and poetry that exploded in the 1950s. This new edition of selected poems includes previously... (read more)
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Beat Poets with Bookmark (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) Beat Poets with Bookmark (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
by Carmela Ciuraru
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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 in... (read more)
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