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Howl
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Allen Ginsberg |
This annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's own re-creation of the revolutionary work's composition process, along with anecdotes and an intimate look at the poet's writing techniques. |
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You’ll Be Okay
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Edie Parker Kerouac |
Edie Parker was eighteen years old when she met Jack Kerouac at Columbia University in 1940. A young socialite from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she had come to New York to study art, and quickly found h… |
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Beerspit Night and Cursing
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Charles Bukowski |
Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised … |
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The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice
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Allen Ginsberg |
These are earliest journals and never-before-published poems of legendary Beat Generation avatar and poet extraordinaire Allen Ginsberg. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept journals throughout his entire… |
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The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, 1956-1991
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Gary Snyder |
One of the central relationships in the Beat scene was the long-lasting friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Bill Morgan, Ginsberg’s biographer, has selected the most significant of the 850 … |
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Windblown world
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Jack Kerouac,Douglas G. Brinkley |
Excerpts from his diaries chronicle a pivotal era in Kerouac's life, describing the creation of his first novel; his special friendships with Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady; and his own take on the … |
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Beat Culture
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William Lawlor |
Beat Culture captures in a single volume six decades of cultural and countercultural expression in the arts and society. It goes beyond other works, which are often limited to Beat writers like Willi… |
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The beat generation
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Lynn M. Zott |
"The second title in the new Gale Critical Companion collection series focusing on important literary movements brings together the salient topics, representative works, and major writers of Beat lit… |
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Beat
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Christopher Felver |
A collection of images, text, ephemera, artifacts, and reminiscence celebrates the creative spirit and joyous antics of the men and women known as the Beat Generation. Spotlighted are Hunter S. Thom… |
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Włóczędzy Dharmy
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Jack Kerouac |
Two ebullient young men are engaged in a passionate search for dharma, or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high Sierras to seek the lesso… |
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Memory babe
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Gerald Nicosia |
A thoroughly researched portrait of Beat writer Jack Kerouac and his life, times, and work. |
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Off the road
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Carolyn Cassady |
This book was a natural progression for me - my first being The Subterraneans followed by On The Road both by Jack Kerouac and then this book Off The Road. An interesting read, humorous, startling a… |
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Spontaneous Mind
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Allen Ginsberg,David A. Carter |
"The interviews collected in Spontaneous Mind, chronologically arranged and in some cases previously unpublished, were conducted throughout Allen Ginsberg's long career. Always a candid and engaging … |
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Factotum
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Charles Bukowski |
One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service… |
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Atop an Underwood
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Jack Kerouac |
An anthology of early stories by the poet of the Beat generation. Topics range from his time in Columbia University, from which he was expelled, to an excerpt from a novel which is based on his servi… |
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Book of Dreams
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Jack Kerouac,Robert Creeley |
Book of Dreams is a comprehensive dream journal published by Jack Kerouac in 1960 that covers all recorded dreams from 1952-1960. In it Kerouac tries to continue plot-lines with characters from his b… |
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Maggie Cassidy
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Jack Kerouac |
Maggie Cassidy tells the story of Jean and Maggie, a couple of girls in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation whilst trying to mature in a New Engla… |
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Desolation angels
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Jack Kerouac |
Desolation Angels is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, which makes up part of his Duluoz Legend. It was published in 1965, but was written years earlier, a… |
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Charles Bukowski
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Howard Sounes |
Locked in The Arms of a Crazy Life is the acclaimed biography of Charles Bukowski, the hard-drinking barfly whose semi-autobiographical books about low-life America made him a cult figure across the … |
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Minor characters
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Joyce Johnson |
Joyce Johnson grew up bright and sensitive in Manhattan in the '50s of the cold war and gray flannel suits. "Attracted to decadence," with "little respect for respectability," she had a boundless - a… |
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