Beat poets
2002
Book
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.
Main title:
Beat poets / selected and edited by Carmela Ciuraru.
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Imprint:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002.
Collation:
250 p. ; 17 cm.
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Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Partial contents: Machine derived contents note: Foreword I -- RAT BREMSER (1934-98) -- From Poems of Madness ("City Madness") 17 -- GREGORY CORSO (1930-2001) -- Hello 19 -- From Ode to Coit Tower 20 -- From Transformation & Escape 23 -- I Am 25 25 -- Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway 26 -- Away One Year 28 -- After Reading "In the Clearing" so -- Writ on the Eve of My 32nd Birthday 32 -- Second Night in N.Y.C. After 3 Years 34 -- ELISE COWEN (1933-62) -- "Trust yourself-but not too far" 35 -- ROBERT CREELET (1926-) -- Chasing the Bird 36 -- The Dishonest Mailmen 7 -- I Know a Man 38 -- The End -- The Hill 40 -- -- -- -- The Rain 41 -- For Love 4S -- DIANE di PRIMA (1934- ) -- Revolutionary Letter #1 46 -- Poem in Praise of My Husband (Taos) 47 -- The Quarrel 49 -- April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa 51 -- Poetics 55 -- LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI (1919- ) -- #9 ("Truth is not the secret of a few") 54 -- #13 ("It was a face which darkness could kill") 56 -- #22 ("crazy to be alive in such a strange -- world") 57 -- #39 ("A blockage in the bowel") 59 -- ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-97) -- From Howl 60 -- "Back on Times Square, Dreaming of Times -- Square" 71 -- My Alba 7 -- Song 75 -- Malest Cornifici Tuo Catullo 78 -- Tears 79 -- From Kaddish 80 -- A Supermarket in California 84 -- -- -- -- Sunflower Sutra 86 -- From America 90 -- BARBARA GUEST (1923-) -- Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher 93 -- Sunday Evening 94 -- LEROI JONES (Amiri Baraka) (1934- ) --
ISBN:
97803754133220375413324
Dewey class:
811.5409811.54
LC class:
PS614
Language:
English
BRN:
130061
Electronic access:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Literature | LITER 811.5409 BEAT | Available |
| Library at the Dock | -Literature | LITER 811.5409 BEAT | Available |