The Birth of the Beat GenerationThe Birth of the Beat Generation
Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960
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Book, 1995
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Current format, Book, 1995, 1st ed, Available . Offered in 0 more formatsProfiles such writers as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and the San Francisco Renaissance group and traces the links among these figures while noting important events in Beat history. 17,500 first printing. Tour.
Profiles such writers as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and the San Francisco Renaissance group and notes important events in Beat history
Concisely told and full of fascinating detail, The Birth of the Beat Generation chronicles the life and times of the maverick poets and novelists William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, as well as the San Francisco group, which included Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gary Snyder. It also evokes the figures surrounding them, including Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Herbert Huncke, and Peter Orlovsky. This is the first book to link the Beats to one another, explaining how they became a group and tracing the connections between Beat lives and such Beat literature as Kerouac's On the Road, Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems, and Burroughs' Naked Lunch.
Accompanying the text are maps, more than one hundred photographs, two sociograms, quotations from Beat works and conversation, chronologies, and a vast lexicon of the slang that defines the nuances and complexities of the Beat world and mind.
Chronicles the life and times of Beat writers William Burroughs, Allen Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, and others, linking various Beat figures to one another and explaining the connections in real life and in Beat literature. Highlights include coverage of Beat women, plus some 100 b&w photos, margin quotes and definitions, and a chronology. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
The second volume in the acclaimed series that brings to life the groups of avant-garde writers, artists, and patrons who were keystones of what has come to be called Modernism, this book sheds new light on the hard-living, maverick poets and novelists--William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others--who coalesced into the Beats. Illustrations.
Profiles such writers as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and the San Francisco Renaissance group and notes important events in Beat history
Concisely told and full of fascinating detail, The Birth of the Beat Generation chronicles the life and times of the maverick poets and novelists William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, as well as the San Francisco group, which included Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gary Snyder. It also evokes the figures surrounding them, including Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Herbert Huncke, and Peter Orlovsky. This is the first book to link the Beats to one another, explaining how they became a group and tracing the connections between Beat lives and such Beat literature as Kerouac's On the Road, Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems, and Burroughs' Naked Lunch.
Accompanying the text are maps, more than one hundred photographs, two sociograms, quotations from Beat works and conversation, chronologies, and a vast lexicon of the slang that defines the nuances and complexities of the Beat world and mind.
Chronicles the life and times of Beat writers William Burroughs, Allen Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, and others, linking various Beat figures to one another and explaining the connections in real life and in Beat literature. Highlights include coverage of Beat women, plus some 100 b&w photos, margin quotes and definitions, and a chronology. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
The second volume in the acclaimed series that brings to life the groups of avant-garde writers, artists, and patrons who were keystones of what has come to be called Modernism, this book sheds new light on the hard-living, maverick poets and novelists--William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others--who coalesced into the Beats. Illustrations.
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