| Description |
xxxvi, 645 pages ; 21 cm. |
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The Viking portable library
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Viking portable library.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"The best minds of a generation" : East Coast beats. On the road (excerpt) ; Subterraneans (excerpt) ; Dharma bums (excerpt) ; Mexico City blues (excerpt) ; 211th Chorus ; 239th Chorus ; 240th Chorus ; 241st Chorus ; 242nd Chorus ; "Essentials of spontaneous prose" ; Belief & technique for modern prose / Jack Kerouac -- "Howl" ; "Footnote to Howl" ; "A supermarket in California" ; "Sunflower sutra" ; "America" ; "Kaddish" ; "Song" ; "On Burroughs' work" / Allen Ginsberg -- Junky (excerpt) ; Yage letters (excerpt) ; Naked lunch (excerpt) ; "Deposition : testimony concerning a sickness" / William Burroughs -- "Elsie John" ; "Joey Martinez" / Herbert Huncke -- Go (excerpt) / John Clellon Holmes -- Mishaps, perhaps (excerpt) / Carl Solomon -- "I am 25" ; "The mad yak" ; "Vision of Rotterdam" ; "Bomb" ; "Marriage" ; "Variations on a generation" / Gregory Corso. |
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"Heart beat" : enter Neal Cassady. Letters to Jack Kerouac, 1947-1950 / Neal Cassady -- Letter to Neal Cassady, early 1951 / Jack Kerouac -- First third (excerpt) / Neal Cassady -- Visions of Cody (excerpt) / Jack Kerouac. |
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"Constantly risking absurdity" : some San Francisco renaissance poets. "Thou shalt not kill" (excerpt) ; "Poems from the Japanese" ; "Rexroth : shaker and Maker" by William Everson / Kenneth Rexroth -- "Dog" ; "Constantly risking absurdity" ; "In Goya's greatest scenes--" ; "One thousand fearful words for Fidel Castro" ; "Horn on Howl" / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- "Peyote poem" ; Scratching the beat surface (excerpt) includes Snyder's poem, "A berry feast", Whalen's poem, "Plus ca change--", McClure's poems "Point Lobos : animism" and "For the death of 100 whales" / Michael McClure -- "Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout" ; "Milton by firelight" ; "Riprap" ; "Praise for sick women" ; "Night Highway Ninety-nine" ; "Tōji" ; "Higashi Hongwanji" ; "Note on the religious tendencies" / Gary Snyder -- "Sourdough Mountain Lookout" ; "A dim view of Berkeley in the spring" ; "Prose take-out, Portland 13:ix:58" / Philip Whalen -- "High" ; "The night is a space of white marble" ; "I have given fair warning" ; "There is this distance between me and what I see" ; "Fud at Foster's" / Philip Lamantia -- "Chicago poem" ; "The basic con" ; "Taxi suite--after Anacreon" ; "Not yet 40, my beard is already white" ; "The image, as in a hexagram" ; "I saw myself" / Lew Welch -- "Round about midnight" ; "Jazz chick" ; "On" ; "O-Jazz-O" / Bob Kaufman. |
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"A few blue words to the wise" : other fellow travelers. "In memory of radio" ; "Way out west" ; "The screamers" ; Letter about Kerouac's prose / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- Funny lotus blues-- / Ray Bremser -- "Three laments" ; "Song for Baby-O, unborn" ; "The practice of magical evocation" ; "Poetics" ; "Brass furnace going out" / Diane DiPrima -- "Blowin' in the wind" ; "The times they are a-changin'" ; "A hard rain's a-gonna fall" ; Tarantula (excerpt) / Bob Dylan -- "Poem to Lee Forest" / Brenda Frazer (Bonnie Bremser) -- "Greenwich Village of my dreams" ; 1001 ways to beat the draft (excerpt) / Tuli Kupferberg -- "Poet of the streets" / Jack Micheline -- "Les luths" ; "Post the lake poets ballad" ; "Personal poem" ; "The day the lady died" / Frank O'Hara -- "Lepers cry" / Peter Orlovsky -- "Poem from jail" (excerpt) ; "The cutting prow" / Ed Sanders -- "Our past" / Anne Waldman -- "A poem for record players" ; "A poem for tea heads" ; "A poem for museum goers" ; "A poem for the insane" ; "Feminine soliloquy" ; "Children of the working class" / John Wieners. |
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"Tales of beatnik glory" : memoirs and posthumous tributes. Notes of a dirty old man (excerpt) / Charles Bukowski -- Kentucky ham (excerpt) / William Burroughs, Jr. -- Off the road (excerpt) / Carolyn Cassady -- Dinners and nightmares (excerpt) / Diane DiPrima -- Troia : Mexican memoirs (excerpt) / Brenda Frazer (Bonnie Bremser) -- "The Beat Hotel, Paris" (excerpt) / Brion Gysin -- Minor characters (excerpt) / Joyce Johnson -- How I became Hettie Jones (excerpt) / Hettie Jones -- Baby driver (excerpt) / Jan Kerouac -- "The day after Superman died" (excerpt) / Ken Kesey -- Mad cub (excerpt) / Michael McClure -- Tales of beatnik glory (excerpt) / Ed Sanders. |
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"The unspeakable visions of the individual" : later work. Nova express (excerpt) / William Burroughs -- "Columbia U Poesy reading--1975" ; "The whole mess--almost" / Gregory Corso -- "April Fool birthday poem for Grandpa" ; Loba : Parts I-VIII (excerpt) / Diane DiPrima -- "The canticle of Jack Kerouac" ; "Uses of poetry" ; "Short story on a painting of Gustav Klimt" / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- "First party at Ken Kesey's" ; "Wichita vortex sutra" ; "Anti-Vietnam war peace mobilization" ; "Mugging" ; "Ode to failure" ; "White shroud" ; "Fourth floor, dawn, up all night writing letters" / Allen Ginsberg -- "Song (I work with the shape)" ; "It's nation time" ; "Watching the stolen rose" ; "The death of Kin Chuen Louie" / Michael McClure -- "Hymn to Archilochus" ; "What would Tom Paine do?" (song) / Ed Sanders -- "Smokey the Bear sutra" ; "I went into the Maverick Bar" ; "Mother Earth : her whales" ; "The bath" ; "Axe handles" ; "Pine tree tops" / Gary Snyder. |
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Appendix--three commentators. "The white negro" / Norman Mailer -- "Beat Zen, square Zen, Zen" / Alan Watts -- "The game of the name" (excerpt) / John Clellon Holmes. |
| Summary |
Collection of poetry, prose and excerts from writers who were part of the "Beat Generation." |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Beats (Persons) -- Literary collections.
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Beats (Persons) |
| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Fiction.
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Literature.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Charters, Ann.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Portable Beat reader. New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1992 (OCoLC)762593042 |
| ISBN |
0670838853 |
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0140151028 (paperback) |
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9780140151022 (paperback) |
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9780670838851 |
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