Penguin (Non-Classics), March 2003. Trade Paperback. Highlighting a lesser-known aspect of one of America's most influential authors, this new collection displays Jack Kerouac's interest in and mastery of haiku. Experimenting with this compact poetic genre throughout his career, Kerouac often included haiku in novels, correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings..... More
Random House Inc, May 1999. Paper Back. Innovative Beat poet Michael McClure has written a book of poems unlike any of his others. These dharma devotions are fruits of his Buddhist mediation practice. Like bold calligraphy moving vertically down a white scroll, they surprise the eye and mind, awakening us..... More
W. W. Norton, July 2008. Hardcover. Hunter S. Thompson detonated a two-ton bomb under the staid field of journalism with his early magazine pieces and revelatory Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing campaign coverage in Rolling Stone. When Thompson was on, there was no one better..... More
Mcgraw-Hill, August 1980. Paper Back. More
Simon & Schuster, September 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in dust jacket. More
Thunder's Mouth Press, October 1993. Paper Back. Hunter S. Thompson is the quintessential outlow journalist, the one true prince of Gonzo, and an American legend. In this "violently unauthorized" biography, Paul Perry offers never-before-related details of this outrageous writer's escapades and finally answers the provocative questions that hound Thompson's hordes..... More
Southern Illinois University Press, October 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Film critic David Sterritt presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the Beat Generation, its intersections with mainstream and experimental film, and the interactions of all of these with American society and the culture of the '50s. Examining American society in the '50s..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Black Sparrow Press, January 1971. Paper Back. More
Black Sparrow Press, February 2000. First Thus. Trade Paperback. "Seething Nation! Vast & Flowing! Day & Night & Dawn!" Bold, sweeping, investigative, rhapsodic, hilarious, heart-rendering, thought-provoking, Edward Sanders' three-volume, America: A History in Verse uniquely and brilliantly tells the story of America...a million stranded fabric / woven by billions of..... More
Viking Adult, December 1996. Hardcover. Review slip laid in. More
Ballantine Books, September 1995. Trade Paperback. "Bill Clinton would have played the Jew's harp stark naked on 60 Minutes if he thought it would help him get elected. He is the Willy Loman of Generation X, a traveling salesman from Arkansas who has the loyalty of a lizard with its..... More
Straight Arrow Books; [distributed by Quick Fox Inc.), January 1973. First Edition. Cloth. First edition in second state DJ. Signed & inscribed by Hunter S. Thompson on half title page. Signed & inscribed on opposite page (recto) by U.S. Senator, George McGovern (Democratic Party presidential nominee/candidate, 1972). Octavo. In edgeworn..... More
Random House Inc, February 1999. Trade Paperback. Here is an unusually diverse collection of Beat voices, including not only Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg, but Amiri Baraka, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen. Also included are short biographies of..... More
Paragon House Publishers, June 1990. Paper Back. More
New Directions Books, February 1974. Trade Paperback. As is. A very small amount of margin notes. More
Black Sparrow Press, January 1980. Trade Paperback. More
