The Beat Book: Poems and Fiction of the Beat Generation - Hardcover

Waldman, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570620008 ISBN 13: 9781570620003

Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc, 1996

Synopsis

Presents selections from the works of Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsburg, and other writers of the Beat Generation, accompanied by brief biographies and information on the places they lived

About this title

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 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 the classic Fast Speaking Woman; the epic poem Iovis; Marriage: A Sentence; and a collection of essays entitled Vow to Poetry. She is the coeditor of several major anthologies including The Angel Hair Anthology and Civil Disobediences: 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1570620008
• ISBN 13: 9781570620003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376