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One of the most progressive literary movements, the "Beat Generation" was a phenomenon of 1950s America that sent shock waves aroung the world. This book captures the flavour of defiance of Beat generation in a comprehensive anthology of the movement's most important prose and poetry. Novel excerpts, stories, essays and songs are joined by biographical sketches of the major Beat writers and a selection of memoirs and tributes.
| ISBN | 0140169105 | | Pages | 688 | | ISBN13 | 9780140169102
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 445 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 128 | | Publication date | 04 Feb 1993 | | Spine width (mm) | 32 | | DEWEY | 808.80355 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | |
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Introduction - "variations on a generation". Part 1 "The best minds of a generation" - East Coast beats: Jack Kerouac; Allen Ginsberg; William Burroughs; Herbert Huncke; John Clellon Holmes; Carl Solomon; Gregory Corso. Part 2 "Heart beat" - enter Neal Cassady: Neal Cassady; Jack Kerouac; Neal Cassady; Jack Kerouac. Part 3 "Constantly risking absurdity" - some San Francisco Renaissance poets: Kenneth Rexroth; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Michael McClure; Gary Snyder; Philip Whalen; Philip Lamantia; Lew Welch; Bob Kaufman. Part 4 "A few blue words to the wise" - other fellow travellers: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones); Ray Bremser; Diana DiPrima; Bob Dylan; Brenda Frazer (Bonnie Bremser); Tuli Kupferberg; Jack Micheline; Frank O'Hara; Peter Orlovsky; Ed Sanders; Anne Waldman; John Wieners. Part 5 "Tales of beatnik glory" - memoirs and posthumous tributes: Charles Bukowski; William Burroughs, Jr.; Carolyn Cassady; Diane DiPrima; Brenda Frazer (Bonnie Bremser); Brion Gysin; Joyce Johnson; Hettie Jones; Jan Kerouac; Ken Kesey; Michael McClure; Ed Sanders. Part 6 "The unspeakable visions of the individual" - later work: William Burroughs; Gregory Corso; Diane DiPrima; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Allen Ginsberg; Michael McClure; Ed Sanders; Gary Snyder. Appendix - three commentators: Norman Mailer; Alan Watts; John Clellon Holmes; books for further reading; index of authors and titles; acknowledgements.
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