The Portable Beat Reader
$50.84
- Paperback
688 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2004
Summary
“The best introduction I know of America’s liveliest post-war literary movement.” -Edmund White
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780142437537 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0142437530 |
| Author: | Ann Charters |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 688 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2004 |
| Weight: | 558g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 42mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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“A deft and definitive collection. It catches the flavor of playful, serious defiance of the whole generation.” – Gary Snyder
“A deft and definitive collection. It catches the flavor of playful, serious defiance of the whole generation.” —Gary Snyder
About The Author
Ann Charters
Ann Charters, professor of English at the University of Connecticut, has been interested in Beat writers since 1956. After completing her doctorate she worked with Jack Kerouac to compile his bibliography. She has written a literary study of Charles Olson and biographies of black entertainer Bert Williams, and (with her husband) the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. She was the general editor of the two-volume encyclopaedia The Beats- Literary Bohemians In Postwar America and has published a collection of her photographic portraits of well-known writers in the book Beats & Company. She has also edited Jack Kerouac’s On the Road for Penguin Modern Classics.
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