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Beat Poets (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

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Beat Poets (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century countercultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish in smoke-filled cafÃ©s, the Beats gave birth to a literature of previously unimaginable expressive range.

The defining work of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac provides the foundation for this collection, which also features the improvisational verse of such Beat legends as Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, and Michael McClure and the work of such women writers as Diane DiPrima and Denise Levertov. LeRoi Jonesâ€™s plaintive â€œPreface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Noteâ€ and Bob Kaufmanâ€™s stirring â€œAbomunist Manifestoâ€ appear here alongside statements on poetics and the alternately incendiary and earnest correspondence of Beat Generation writers.

Visceral and powerful, infused with an unmediated spiritual and social awareness, this is a rich and varied tribute and, in the populist spirit of the Beats, a vital addition to the libraries of readers everywhere.
Country USA
Brand Everyman's Library
Manufacturer Everyman's Library
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780375413322
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2002-07-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375413322

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