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Beat Writers


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The Portable Beat Reader
The Portable Beat Reader
by Ann Charters
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Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy... (read more)

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The Portable Beat Reader
The Portable Beat Reader
by Ann Charters
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Through poetry, fiction, essays, song lyrics, letters, and memoirs, this authoritative single-volume collection of Beat literature captures the triumphant energy of a movement that swept through American letters with hurricane force. Featuring: Jack... (read more)

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A Different Beat: Early Work by Women of the Beat Generation
A Different Beat: Early Work by Women of the Beat Generation
by Richard Peabody
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"The timing is perfect. Women seemed missing from official collections of Beat writing. The women I heard in Greenwich Village seemed rebels -- daring, mysterious, strong, able with magical images to say what I hadn't heard women say ... Present tense... (read more)

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Beat voices :an anthology of beat poetry
Beat voices :an anthology of beat poetry
by David Kherdian
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"With the resurgence of interest in the Beats comes this timely anthology of both poetry and prose selections.... The volume introduces the ambivalence of the age and would make a welcome gift not only for teenagers, but for their parents, as well... (read more)

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Beat Book : Writings From Beat Generation (Rev 07 Edition)
Beat Book : Writings From Beat Generation (Rev 07 Edition)
by Anne Waldman
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The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real architects... (read more)

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City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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"This comprehensive selection from the influential City Lights Pocket Poets Series is a landmark retrospective, celebrating forty years of publishing and cultural history. From the introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti: “Even though some say that... (read more)

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Beat Collection
Beat Collection
by Barry Miles
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By dividing the Beat Collection into three sections: The Original Beats - New York 1944-53; The San Francisco Scene 1954-57 and The Second Wave - New York 1958-60, New York Times bestselling author and Beat expert Barry Miles pulls together writings from,... (read more)

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Beat Book
Beat Book
by Anne Waldman
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The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real architects... (read more)

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The Portable Beat reader
The Portable Beat reader
by Ann Charters
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Extensive selections from writers such as Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Ferlinghetti, and Snyder, and authors influenced by the Beats, are presented with a general introduction and substantial headnotes by the editor. Material from authors not... (read more)

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Beat Down To Your Soul What Was the Beat Generation
Beat Down To Your Soul What Was the Beat Generation
by Ann Charters
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In this wide-ranging anthology, Beat scholar Ann Charters brings together more than seventy-five essays, reviews, memoirs, poems, and sketches that evoke the credos and the controversies surrounding the Beat generation writers of the 1950s. Charters... (read more)

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The Beat Book: Poems and Fiction of the Beat Generation
The Beat Book: Poems and Fiction of the Beat Generation
by Anne Waldman
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An anthology of the best of the beats edited by Anne Waldman (who should know) and containing a chronology of the movement from Kerouac to Snyder. The emphasis is on the the poetry and prose excerpts; However, the volume includes brief biographical... (read more)

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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, and Muses at the Heart of Revolution
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, and Muses at the Heart of Revolution
by Brenda Knight
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 344-351) and index.... (read more)

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Protest the Beat Generation & the Angr
Protest the Beat Generation & the Angr
by Gene Feldman
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Big Sky Mind Buddhism & the Beat Generat
Big Sky Mind Buddhism & the Beat Generat
by Carole Tomlinson
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Women of the Beat Generation
Women of the Beat Generation
by Brenda Knight
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Beat Angels
Beat Angels
by Arthur Knight
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Beat Speak: An Illustrated Beat Glossary - Circa 1956-1959
Beat Speak: An Illustrated Beat Glossary - Circa 1956-1959
by Ashleigh Talbot
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This Is the Beat Generation New York San Francisco Paris
This Is the Beat Generation New York San Francisco Paris
by James Campbell
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Beats
Beats
by Seymour Krim
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Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation
Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation
by Carole Tonkinson
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