On the Road (Study Guide)
 From Amazon.com: On the Road is truly an influential work. Overnight, it propelled Jack Kerouac from unknown status to "king of the beats" and then helped awaken a nation of youth who shook America out of the 1950s and ushered in the excitement [... more]
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Beat Poets
Solid Sampler of 28 Poets: "Beats Poets," a snug volume of various poetry from the Beat era in the 1950s and 60s, can serve as a sampler for 28 modern influential poets. Passages from Ginsberg's "Howl" and Corso's "Transformation [... more]
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Nova Express
the cut-up trilogy: my god, man! Burroughs is a sheer genius. I read the trilogy as well as Naked lunch and the Wild Boys (also cut-ups) three years agoo. This is the one I remember most. I took awhile to read it, and I tried to compete in an [... more]
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On The Road 40th Anniversary Edition
From Amazon.com: On the Road is truly an influential work. Overnight, it propelled Jack Kerouac from unknown status to "king of the beats" and then helped awaken a nation of youth who shook America out of the 1950s and ushered in the excitement [... more]
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Howl and Other Poems
From Amazon.com: The epigraph for Howl is from Walt Whitman: "Unscrew the locks from the doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" Announcing his intentions with this ringing motto, Allen Ginsberg published a volume of poetry which [... more]
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Rumi: Past and Present, East and West: The Life, ...
From Amazon.com: Who is the bestselling poet in the United States? Allen Ginsburg? Robert Frost? Walt Whitman? How about Jalal al-Din Rumi? Rumi-mania has struck hard, inspiring rock bands, high fashion, modern dance, and opera. All this from the son of [... more]
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Readings By On The Beat Gener
this be beat: Almost certainly (benzedrine?) charged by something illicit in the bloodstream Kerouac here rumbles and clear throatedly gives a word-slinging embrace to the microphone, there's power in these words, he punctuates it by stops and [... more]
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On the Road
From Amazon.com: On the Road is truly an influential work. Overnight, it propelled Jack Kerouac from unknown status to "king of the beats" and then helped awaken a nation of youth who shook America out of the 1950s and ushered in the excitement [... more]
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Howl And Other Poems
From Amazon.com: Has a more notorious, infamous, call to arms of a poem than "Howl" been published in the late 20th century? Scrawled in 1955 with such intimate, enthusiastic fervor by the young Ginsberg, "Howl" helped thrust into the [... more]
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Howl and Other Poems
From Amazon.com: The epigraph for Howl is from Walt Whitman: "Unscrew the locks from the doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" Announcing his intentions with this ringing motto, Allen Ginsberg published a volume of poetry which [... more]
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How To Paint Sunlight
Interesting in parts,other times a disappointment: I just picked up this book today,after eagerly awaiting it. It is worth reading, but if you are a fan of his older material ("Her","European Poems & Transitions","Coney [... more]
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Palimpsest A Memoir
From Amazon.com: A candid memoir of Vidal's first 40 years of life. His famous skills as a raconteur, his forthrightness, and his wicked wit are brilliantly at work in these recollections of a difficult family, talented friends, and interesting enemies. [... more]
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