Beat Poets

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781841597492 Author(s): Carmela Ciuraru Format: Hardcover Language: English Year: 2002 Publisher: Everyman Pages: 256 Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS

Description: This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century counter-cultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish in smoke-filled cafés, 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 di Prima and Denise Levertov. LeRoi Jonesâs plaintive ââPreface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Noteââ and Bob Kaufmanâs stirring ââAbomunist Manifestoââ 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.

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