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"A deft and definitive collection. It catches the flavor of playful, serious defiance of the whole generation." -- Gary Snyder
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Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. It was the junk-sick surrealism of William Burroughs; the wild, Whitmanesque poetry of Allen Ginsberg; and the lumberjack Zen of Gary Snyder.
The Portable Beat Reader collects the most significant writing of these and fellow members (and spiritual descendants) of the Beat Generation, including Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Bob Dylan, Leroi Jones, and Michael McClure. In poetry, fiction, essays, song lyrics, letters, and memoirs, it captures the triumphant rudeness, energy, and exhilaration of a movement that swept through American letters with hurricane force.
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The poet Gary Snyder once joked there was no Beat Generation-it consisted of only three or four people, and four people don't make up a generation. Read the first page
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This anthology is a great starting point for anyone who wants to get a flavor of the Beat style. For those who crave more, the extensive bibliography is a fine reference. All the major players, women as well as men, are included in this book. If you have to get any general book on the Beat Generation, get this one.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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To understand the workings of the human Id, it is nessecary to first deny it. This book is an introduction into how they were doing it. I strongly recommend that anyone interested in the literary happenings of the Beat generation should have this book as a launching point for further investigation. If you read it, there will most certainly be further investigation.
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This collection of writings from both the early Beat nucleus (including the not-so-published author Huncke, a real treat), the poets from the west coast scene, and the 'associated cast' of a really varied bunch including Dylan, Kesey, Bukowski, Billy Burroughs...going on to offer later writings of the initial nucleus...as well as three indespensible essays on the more philosophical side to the movement by strong 'allies', make this book a must-have for anyone attempting serious study on the movement both academically of for personal spiritual beatific benefit of the soul and mind and tastebuds...fantastic stuff, they should issue one of these in every hotel room in the whole.
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