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The Portable Beat Reader By Ann Charters (Paperback, 2003)

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 SnyderThe 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
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Beginning in the late 1940's American literature discovered a four-letter word & the word was beat Beat as in poverty & beatitude ecstasy & exile Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast & reckless as a V-8 Chevy It was the junk-sick surrealism of William Burroughs; the wild Whitmanesque poetry of Allen Ginsberg; & the lumberjack Zen of Gary Snyder The Portable Beat Reader collects the most significant writing of these & fellow members (and spiritual descendants) of the Beat Generation including Neal Cassady Gregory Corso Diane di Prima Bob Dylan Leroi Jones & Michael Mc Clure In poetry fiction essays song lyrics letters & memoirs it captures the triumphant rudeness energy & exhilaration of a movement that swept through American letters with hurricane force

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