Beat Poets

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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 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 DiPrima and Denise Levertov. LeRoi Jones’s plaintive “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” and Bob Kaufman’s stirring “Abomunist Manifesto” 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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Weight 0.23 kg
Dimensions 1.88 × 10.85 × 16.44 cm
PubliCanadation City/Country

USA

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Format

Hardback

Language

Pages

256

Publisher

Year Published

2002-7-9

Imprint

ISBN 10

0375413324

About The Author

Carmela Ciuraru is the editor of the anthology First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them, and the former editor of the Journal of the Poetry Society of America. A graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, she lives in New York City.

Table Of Content

Foreword RAY BREMSER (1934–98)From Poems of Madness (“City Madness”)GREGORY CORSO (1930–2001)HelloFrom Ode to Coit Tower From Transformation & EscapeI Am 25Poets Hitchhiking on the HighwayAway One Year After Reading “In the Clearing” Writ on the Eve of My 32nd BirthdaySecond Night in N.Y.C. After 3 Years ELISE COWEN (1933–62)“Trust yourself—but not too far” ROBERT CREELEY (1926– )Chasing the BirdThe Dishonest MailmenI Know a Man The End The Hill The RainFor LoveDIANE di PRIMA (1934– )Revolutionary Letter #1Poem in Praise of My Husband (Taos)The Quarrel April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa Poetics LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI (1919– )#9 (“Truth is not the secret of a few”)#13 (“It was a face which darkness could kill”) #22 (“crazy to be alive in such a strange world”) #39 (“A blockage in the bowel”’) ALLEN GINSBERG (1926–97)From Howl “Back on Times Square, Dreaming of Times Square” My Alba Song Malest Cornifici Tuo Catullo TearsFrom Kaddish A Supermarket in California Sunflower Sutra From America BARBARA GUEST (1923– )Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher Sunday Evening LEROI JONES (Amiri Baraka) (1934– )Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide NoteSex, like desire War Poem Political Poem LENORE KANDEL (1932– )Enlightenment Poem Blues for Sister Sally Junk/Angel BOB KAUFMAN (1925–86)Benediction West Coast Sounds—1956 FragmentGinsberg (for Allen)Abomunist Manifesto JACK KEROUAC (1922–69)Mexican LonelinessHow to MeditateA Sudden Sketch Poem 116HymnFrom Mexico City BluesTULI KUPFERBERG (1923– )“I dreamed of a bum seven foot tall” “My muse goosed me” JOANNE KYGER (1934– )“It is lonely”“My father died this spring” May 29 “It’s a great day”PHILIP LAMANTIA (1927– )From Hypodermic LightHigh “Man is in pain”DENISE LEVERTOV (1923–97)The Gypsy’s Window The Flight The Marriage The Marriage (II) Poem from Manhattan JOANNA McCLURE (1930– )A Vacancy MICHAEL McCLURE (1932– )The Flowers of Politics (I) The Flowers of Politics (II)Mad Sonnet 13 DAVID MELTZER (1937– )From the Untitled Epic Poem 6th Raga: For Bob Alexander 15th Raga: For Bela LugosiHAROLD NORSE (1916– )Picasso Visits Braque I Would Not Recommend Love“I Have Always Liked George Gershwin More than Ernest Hemingway” I Have Seen the Light and It Is My MindHotel Nirvana FRANK O’HARA (1926–66)Personal Poem Autobiographia Literaria TodayMy Heart Avenue ANow That I Am in Madrid and Can Think Having a Coke With You PETER ORLOVSKY (1933– )Peter’s Jealous of Allen “Writing poems is a Saintly thing”Some One Liked Me When I Was TwelveCollaboration: Letter to Charlie Chaplin MARIE PONSOT (1921– )Take My Disproportionate Desire Matins & Lauds Communion of Saints: The Poor Bastard Under the Bridge Easter Saturday, NY, NY Rockefeller the Center GARY SNYDER (1930– )Migration of Birds A Sinecure for P. Whalen Under the Skin of ItAugust on Sourdough, a Visit from Dick Brewer ANNE WALDMAN (1945– )How the Sestina (Yawn) WorksRevolution Diaries The Blue That Reminds Me of the Boat When She LeftLEW WELCH (1926–72)“Whenever I make a new poem” “I know a man’s supposed to have his hair cut short” PHILIP WHALEN (1923– )For C. 20:vii:58, On Which I Renounce the Notion of Social Responsibility Prose Take-Out, Portland, 13:ix:58Something Nice About Myself True Confessions JOHN WIENERS (1934– )A Poem for Tea Heads From A Poem for Painters A Poem for the Insane LETTERS, ENCOUNTERS, & STATEMENTSON POETICSDonald Allen (1912– ) William Burroughs (1914–97) Gregory Corso Lawrence Ferlinghetti Allen Ginsberg Jack KerouacFrank O’Hara Peter Orlovsky Acknowledgments Index of First Lines

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