Penguin Modern Poets 5: Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg by Gregory Corso (1970-08-05)
Penguin Books Ltd. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear. Rubbed edges and corners. Binding still tight and text unmarked. More
Beat Generation
Howl (7013)
Fantasy Records, 1959-01-01 05:00:00. Vinyl. Good vinyl in mildly worn sleeve. More
William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible : A Portrait
Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap), August 1994. Trade Paperback. With the premiere of David Cronenberg's adaptation of Burrows' Naked Lunch, a new wave of fascination has been generated for this fierce anti-establishment crusader--the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed of genius (Norman Mailer). Photos. More
Roominghouse Madrigals : Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
Black Sparrow Press, 1993. Trade Paperback. "The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author "He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriter The Roominghouse Madrigals is a selection of poetry from Charles Bukowski's early work. It shows a slightly softer side to the beloved barfly..... More
The Ticket That Exploded -- B-164
Grove Press / Black Cat, 1978. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. 4th printing of Black Cat / Grove mass market paperback. Clean & sound with some slight darkening to edges. [217 pages plus list of Grove Press Paperback titles then available.]. More
Cities of the Red Night
Henry Holt & Company, March 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Cities of the Red Night
Henry Holt & Company, March 1982. Trade Paperback. More
Naked Lunch
Grove Press, January 1992. Trade Paperback. "Naked Lunch" is the unnerving tale of a monumental descent into the hellish world of a narcotics addict as he travels from New York to Tangiers, then into Interzone, a nightmarish modern urban wasteland in which the forces of good and evil vie for..... More
Word Virus : The William S. Burroughs Reader
Grove Press, December 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. "Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader" brings together selections of Burroughs' most important and challenging work - beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and Jack Kerouac's never-before-seen collaborative novel, "And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks"..... More
Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader (Burroughs, William S.)
Grove Press, June 2000. Trade Paperback. With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age. Beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and Jack Kerouac's never-before-seen collaborative novel), Word Virus follows the arc of Burroughs's remarkable career..... More
Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th Anniversary Edition)
Penguin (Non-Classics), March 2003. Trade Paperback. Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junk, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from..... More
The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 35)
Cambridge University Press, November 1989. Hardcover. Though the term "San Francisco Renaissance" is usually associated with the Beat movement, it was in reality a collage of different communities, often at odds with one another, whose agendas were social and political as much as aesthetic. These subcommunities provided important contexts for..... More
The Beats: From Kerouac to Kesey, an Illustrated Journey Through the Beat Generation
Running Press Book Publishers, October 2007. Oversized Hardcover. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of On the Road, the defining book of the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac wrote his masterpiece in one frenzied three-week period in 1951 on the infamous 119-foot scroll, which has been "on the..... More
Back Roads To Far Places
New Directions, January 1971. First Edition. Paper Back. 12mo.; Five-inch x Six & 1/4-inch. Clean, sound, gently handled. More
Open eye, open heart
New Directions, January 1973. Trade Paperback. More
The Secret Meaning of Things
New Directions, 1968. Cloth. Octavo in edgeworn jacket with small tears. Front flap not clipped Red cloth covered boards with white lettering along spine. Edges worn. Bump along bottom rear panel edge. Some scattered spots of discoloration. I believe this is a First Edition. But I have no information how..... More
These Are My Rivers : New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993
W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1994. Trade Paperback. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "one of our ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist), has gathered here four decades of poetry in his inimitable everyman's voice, including more than fifty pages of new work. The tone has deepened over the years, and he..... More
Unfair Arguments With Existence: Seven Plays for a New Theatre
New Directions, January 1963. Paper Back. Fifth printing; Mild wear from use; 1.5 in crease presetn at rear cover upper corner; Clean text. More
Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1950–2013
Liveright, September 2015. Hardcover. Over the course of an adventured-filled life, now in its tenth decade, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been many things: a poet, painter, pacifist, publisher, courageous defender of free speech, and owner of San Francisco's legendary City Lights bookstore. Now the man whose A Coney Island of the..... More
Indian Journals
1970. Trade Paperback. First trade edition. Light foxing on spine. Tiny coffee mark on the fore edge of the print block. More
KADDISH AND OTHER POEMS 1958-1960, THE POCKET POETS SERIES - - NUMBER FOURTEEN
CITY LIGHTS BOOKS, April 1967. Reprint. Paper Back. 12mo. 7th printing. Soiling, foxing & dust staining scattered over -- mostly the front -- cover. Spine darkened. Foxing & ink staining verso of front cover panel. There is also some ink staining along bottom edge of rear cover panel verso. Also..... More
White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985
Harper Perennial, November 1987. Trade Paperback. Poems by a modern master. "[Ginsberg's] powerful mixture of Blake, Whitman, Pound, and Williams, to which he added his own volatile, grotesque, and tender humor, has assured him a memorable place in modern poetry".-- Helen Vendler. A fine new collection of poems by Ginsberg..... More
Death & Fame : Poems 1993-1997
Harpercollins, March 2000. Trade Paperback. Allen Ginsberg was one of the bravest and most admired poets of this century. Famous for energizing the Beat Generation literary movement upon his historic encounter with Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs in mid-century New York City, Ginsberg influenced several generations of writers..... More
Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series, Number Four)
City Lights Books, May 1980. Trade Paperback. The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg's HOWL & Other Poems! HOWL & Other Poems, the prophetic book that launched the Beat Generation, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books in 1956. Considered the single most influential work of post-WWII United..... More
