Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac
 Amram Is Amazing!: Dave Amram passionately evokes in his newest book the rhythms and poetic vibes of his life all the while casting to the four winds the much misaligned "beatnik myth" that plagued Jack Kerouac's life and stigmatized his art. [... more]
$22.95
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The Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the ...
divA distinguished poet and scholar upends the notion that poetry can save the world.br/divdivAllen Grossman's combined reputation as a poet and as a professor of poetry gives him an unusual importance in the landscape of contemporary American poetry. In [... more]
$63.80
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America Needs a Buddhist President
divIn this bold poetic vision of America under the leadership of a Buddhist president, Brett Bevell's prophetic voice and Eben Dodd's simple but elegant line drawings proclaim a radical alternative American dream in the tradition of Buddhism-inspired [... more]
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Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now
DIVDuring the past year Paul McCartney has been in the public's eye more than at any time since the peak of Beatlemania over thirty years ago. His fans have been treated to the best-selling Flaming Pie and Standing Stone albums, a full hour of Paul on [... more]
$5.27
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Paul Bowles: A Life
DIVPaul Bowles, best known for his classic 1949 novel, The Sheltering Sky, is one of the most compelling yet elusive figures of twentieth-century American counterculture. In this definitive biography, Virginia Spencer Carr has captured Bowles in his many [... more]
$10.97
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
This quintessentially American story of a young man's hunger for experience is a streetwise Meetings with Remarkable Men with echoes of Whitman and Kerouac. Includes photos by Bruce Weber and Allen Ginsburg. [... more]
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Postwar America
The half-century since the end of World War II has been crucial in defining America's image of itself and role in the world. A thorough survey of an era dominated by the cold war on the international front and conflicting social forces at home, this [... more]
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Sylvia: A Novel
This book deserves some kind of notice: I came across it in the New York Times Book Review (6.10.07) and mean to read it. I don't know how to rate it, but the review suggests a high rating. All I've read by Michaels is "The Men's Club," which [... more]
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The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice
PLease, Stop now before you hurt yourself: Marcus ran out of gas about the time he tried linking Bill Clinton to Elvis. Were it not for Bob Dylan, he might have nothing worth writing about. Attempting to read volumes into Bill Pullman's cheese block face [... more]
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Spike's Piques
Anger can be fun.: Cross Tom Lehrer with Pete Seeger and Allen Ginsburg and you get a delightful, delicious compendium of Spike's raging, amusing, and clever short prose pieces and poems over the last several years. He's a talented critic of the times. [... more]
$14.00
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The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, ...
A good book for so many reasons....: This is a great book for a numer of reasons. I'm going to list a number of them and then write a bit in conclusion. 1. It deals with many of the 'Beats' rather than focusing, as is typical, on Kerouac and Ginsberg and [... more]
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The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice
PLease, Stop now before you hurt yourself: Marcus ran out of gas about the time he tried linking Bill Clinton to Elvis. Were it not for Bob Dylan, he might have nothing worth writing about. Attempting to read volumes into Bill Pullman's cheese block face [... more]
$25.00
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