This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five
writers from the great twentieth-century counter-cultural literary
movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic
zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish in
smoke-filled cafes, the Beats gave birth to a literature of
previously unimaginable expressive range. The defining work of
Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac provides the foundation for this
collection, which also features the improvisational verse of such
Beat legends as Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder
and Michael McClure and the work of such women writers as Diane di
Prima and Denise Levertov. LeRoi Jones's plaintive ''Preface to a
Twenty Volume Suicide Note'' and Bob Kaufman's stirring ''Abomunist
Manifesto'' appear here alongside statements on poetics and the
alternately incendiary and earnest correspondence of Beat
Generation writers. Visceral and powerful, infused with an
unmediated spiritual and social awareness, this is a rich and
varied tribute and, in the populist spirit of the Beats, a vital
addition to the libraries of readers everywhere.
General
| Imprint: |
Everyman's Library
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Everyman's Library POCKET POETS |
| Release date: |
August 2002 |
| Authors: |
Carmela Ciuraru
|
| Dimensions: |
166 x 114 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
256 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-84159-749-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-84159-749-X |
| Barcode: |
9781841597492 |
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