The Beat Book
Writings from the Beat Generation
$53.48
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2007
Summary
A selection of the best and most exemplary writings of the Beat poets and novelists.
The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real architects of change. There is no doubt that we’re living in a freer America as a result of the Beat literary movement, which is an important part of the larger pictur…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590304556 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590304551 |
| Author: | Anne Waldman, Allen Ginsberg |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2007 |
| Weight: | 445g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 134mm x 27mm |
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Critics Review
“The Beats, that is, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, and Michael McClure, to name a core group, are finally being accorded the attention they deserve; they constituted, after all, a major, lastingly influential arts movement… . The fact that Waldman’s book is of such high quality is no surprise; a poet herself, she cofounded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado.”—Booklist
About The Author
Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman is a cofounder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, which began in 1974, and chair of its celebrated Summer Writing Program. She is the author of over forty books of poetry and poetics including:
- Fast Speaking Woman
- Iovis
- Marriage- A Sentence
- Vow to Poetry (a collection of essays)
She is the coeditor of several major anthologies, including:
- The Angel Hair Anthology
- Civil Disobedience- Poetics and Politics in Action
In addition to her teaching, editing, and archival work, she is an internationally known performer/vocalist of her own work, and a cultural and political activist.
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