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
Jack Kerouac : Selected Letters, 1957-1969
Penguin Group USA Inc, October 2000. Trade Paperback. The first volume of Jack Kerouac's selected letters, published in 1995, was hailed as an important and revealing addition to Kerouac scholarship. This second and final volume, comprising letters written between 1957, the year On the Road was published, and the day..... More
Jack's book: An oral biography of Jack Kerouac
Penguin Books, October 1979. Trade Paperback. 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
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses over the Hills
Black Sparrow, 2000. Trade Paperback. The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses is a book of poems written by Charles Bukowski for Jane, his first love. These poems explore a more emotional side to Charles Bukowski. More
Hot Water Music
Black Sparrow, 1988. Reprint. Trade Paperback. With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music. He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque. The stories..... More
The Yage Letters Redux
City Lights Books, March 2006. Trade Paperback. In January 1953, William Burroughs began a seven-month expedition into the jungles of South America, ostensibly to find yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. But Burroughs also cast his anthropological-satiric eye over the local regimes to record trademark vignettes of political and..... More
Kerouac: A Biography
St. Martins Griffin, October 1994. Trade Paperback. Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary methods and examine the dozen books comprising what he called 'the legend of Duluoz.' Nearly all of..... 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
Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America
Mcgraw-Hill, August 1980. Paper Back. More
Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America
Delta, May 1990. Paper Back. Kerouac--King Of The Beats and unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture--is one of America's literary heroes. Desolate Angel is Dennis McNally's stunning biography of this artist. Illustrated. 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
On Bread and Poetry: A Panel Discussion Between Gary Snyder, Lew Welch and Philip Whalen
Grey Fox Pr, August 1977. Paper Back. Some fading, shelf wear to the cover. More
Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
Penguin Books, April 2012. Paper Back. "A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation." --Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the Way First published in 1978, Jack's Book gives us an intimate look into the life and times..... More
Selected Poems 1947-1995
Harper, October 1996. Hardcover. Allen Ginsberg is one of America's most distinguished living poets. Famous as a catalyst for the Beat Generation literary movement, his raw, innovative verse and provocative attitudes of spiritual, political, and sexual liberation have inspired countless poets, musicians, and visual and performance artists around the world..... More
White Shroud: Poems, 1980-1985
Harper & Row, January 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine new collection of poems by Ginsberg that feature an important new work, the title poem White Shroud. First printing. Inscribed and dated (March 1987) on the title page to the New York actress Linda Dorff by Allen Ginsberg. On the..... 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
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
The Process
Overlook TP, April 2001. Paper Back. The Process has the dazzling impact of a drug-inspired dream and, since its publication more than thirty years ago, has established itself as a classic of twentieth century modernism. Ulys O. Hanson, an African-American professor of the History of Slavery, who is in North..... More
Go: A Novel
Thunder's Mouth Pr, October 1997. Trade Paperback. Generally acknowledged to be the first Beat novel, go was originally published in 1952, five years before Kerouac's On the Road. John Clellon Holmes became the Beat Generation's chief chronicler.--Newsweek. More
Guilty of Everything (Series #2, Book #9)
Hanuman Books, September 1987. Paper Back. #9 Hanuman Books release., Paperback in jacket. 64mo (miniature). Dustjacket has edgewear around pictorial front panel & darkening to spine & back panel. There is a loose thread in binding but it remains sound. More
Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think)
Viking Adult, August 2007. Hardcover. Legions of youthful Americans have taken "On the Road" as a manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit the road. But there is much more to the book than that. In "Why Kerouac Matters," John Leland embarks on a wry, insightful, and playful discussion..... More
The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
Penguin Books, August 2013. Trade Paperback. A groundbreaking new biography of Jack Kerouac from the author of the award-winning memoir Minor Characters Joyce Johnson brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend in this compelling new book. Tracking Kerouac's development from his boyhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, through his fateful encounters..... More
