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The Beats. a title that Jack Kerouac coined to define the exhausted exaltation of a generation, produced a body of works infected with a new energy. Their spontaneous, often-unedited style epitomised their own era and their famed close-knit literary community continues to inspire writers today.
Barry Miles, friend and biographerof Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, was there , part of the Beat Vibe. here he gathers together some of the most influential as well as the most overlooked writers of the era. He covers the writings from The Original Beats (New York 1944-53): The San Francisco Scene (1954-57) and The Second Wave (New York 1958-60) including works from Gregory Corso, John Clellon Holmes, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Frank O'Hara, Diane di Prima and Alexander Trocchi to the king of the Beats Himself, Jack Kerouac.
The result is a fascinating compendium that recaptures the unique but varied voices of the Beat generation..
Barry Miles, friend and biographerof Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, was there , part of the Beat Vibe. here he gathers together some of the most influential as well as the most overlooked writers of the era. He covers the writings from The Original Beats (New York 1944-53): The San Francisco Scene (1954-57) and The Second Wave (New York 1958-60) including works from Gregory Corso, John Clellon Holmes, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Frank O'Hara, Diane di Prima and Alexander Trocchi to the king of the Beats Himself, Jack Kerouac.
The result is a fascinating compendium that recaptures the unique but varied voices of the Beat generation..
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"Miles ...was right in the groovy swim from the start. He was Mr Alternative before the Beatles of the Rolling Stones got going ... Miles was the one they all liked, confided in and trusted with their lives (at least their published ones)." (Independent)
"[Miles's] mastery of Beat Generation know-how must surely be unrivalled." (Sunday Telegraph)
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"[Miles's] mastery of Beat Generation know-how must surely be unrivalled." (Sunday Telegraph)
Beat Generation - members of the generation that came to maturity in the 1950s, whose rejection of the social and political systems of the West was expressed through contempt for regular work, possessions, traditional dress, and espousal of anarchism, communal living, drugs, etc.
'We are all trying to get the exact style of ourselves' Michael McClure on the San Francisco Renaissance.
The Only thing that you can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does' Allen Ginsberg
'We are all trying to get the exact style of ourselves' Michael McClure on the San Francisco Renaissance.
The Only thing that you can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does' Allen Ginsberg
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- PublisherVirgin Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1852272643
- ISBN 13 9781852272647
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages388
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