This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five
writers from the great twentieth-century countercultural 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 DiPrima 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.
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