The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
by Alan 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...
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San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets
by David Meltzer
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"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...
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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-...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Richard Brautigan: A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and the Hawkline Monster
by Richard Brautigan
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In this collection of novels, The Hawkline Monster is nicely paired with A Confederate General from Big Sur and Dreaming of Babylon. Defined by settings along the West Coast, and characters that find themselves in the oddest predicaments, you'll enjoy...
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An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey
by Richard Brautigan
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Richard Brautigan's last novel, published in the U.S. for the first time
Richard Brautigan was an original--brilliant and wickedly funny, his books resonated with the sixties, making him an overnight counterculture hero. Taken in its entirety, his...
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The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing
by Richard Brautigan
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discovered Brautigan when I was 20 years old. After reading The Abortion,
I was compelled to seek out each and every title that he'd written. Sadly, Brautigan
shot himself in '84, five years before I even knew who he was. His last book,
So The...
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Beat Poets with Bookmark (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
by Carmela Ciuraru
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An impassioned audacity distinguishes the thirty writers represented in the rousing anthology of poetry from the great 20th-century countercultural literary movement. In combining art with an unapologetic antiestablishment zeal, the Beats gave birth to a...
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