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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-01 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
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Language: en
Pages: 410
Pages: 410
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher:
An anthology of the best of the beats edited by Anne Waldman (who should know) and containing a chronology of the movement from Kerouac to Snyder. The emphasis
Language: en
Pages: 145
Pages: 145
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-25 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
This book offers a concise overview of the social, cultural, and aesthetic sensibilities of the Beat Generation, explaining how their drastic visions and radica
Language: en
Pages: 0
Pages: 0
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Tarcher
"Beat Spirit" exposes the truth that life doesn't have to feel standardized, patented, predictable, interminable or robotic for today's new Beats. Readers will
Language: en
Pages: 416
Pages: 416
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-09-01 - Publisher: Penguin
Essays, poems, photographs, and letters explore the link between Buddhism and the Beats--with previously unpublished material from several beat writers, includi