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Accidental Autobiography : The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso

By: GREGORY CORSO, BILL MORGAN, PATTI SMITH

Price: $25.95

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: March 2003

Seller ID: 143370

ISBN: 0811215350

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Fabulous letters from the vagabond Beat poet to his friends -- among them Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. For all his charm and intelligence poet Gregory Corso lived a vagabond life. He never held down a regular job. He rarely stayed very long under the same roof. He spent long stretches -- some as long as four or five years -- abroad. Many of his letters came from Europe -- France, England, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Greece -- as he kept in touch with his circle of friends -- among them his best friend Allen Ginsberg and a steady supporter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He left (or was left b...
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Big Sur

By: Jack Kerouac

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: June 1992

Seller ID: 129413

ISBN: 0140168125

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntatic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half XX century, a synthesis of Proust, Celine, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonius Monk, Basho, Charlie Parker, and Kerouac's own athletic sacred insight. "Big Sur's humane, precise account of the extraordinary ravages of alcohol delirium tremens on Kerouac, a suerior novelist who had strength to complete hi...
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Big Sur: (Penguin Ink)

By: Jack Kerouac

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics): April 2011

Seller ID: 260143

ISBN: 0143119230

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Written some time after his best-known works, "Big Sur" follows Jack Kerouac's comedown from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, presenting his mature confrontation of some of his most troubling emotional issues.
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Desolation Angels

By: Jack Kerouac

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Riverhead Trade: September 1995

Seller ID: 136929

ISBN: 1573225053

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

With the publication of On the Road in 1957, Jack Kerouac became at once the spokesman and hero of the Beat Generation. Along with such visionaries as William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac changed the face of American literature, igniting a counterculture revolution that even now, decades later, burns brighter than ever in Desolation Angels. In one of the major cinematic events of 2012, Jack Kerouac's legendary Beat classic, "On the Road," finally hits the big screen. Directed by Walter Salles ("The Motorcycle Diaries"; "Paris, Je T'Aime") and with a cast of some...
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Desolation Angels

By: Jack Kerouac

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Riverhead Trade: September 1995

Seller ID: 260150

ISBN: 1573225053

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Dr. Sax

By: Jack Kerouac

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Grove Press: January 1994

Seller ID: 259387

ISBN: 0802130496

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"Kerouac dreams of America in the authentic rolling rhythms of a Whitman or a Thomas Wolfe, drunk with eagerness for life."--John K. Hutchens
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Dr. Sax.

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Andre Deutsch: January 1977

Seller ID: 268578

ISBN: 0345271319

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Good

First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

By: N/A

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press: March 2017

Seller ID: 109708

ISBN: 0816699178

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Go : A Novel

By: JOHN CLELLON HOLMES

Price: $18.99

Publisher: Pub Group West: October 2002

Seller ID: 260159

ISBN: 1560254246

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The novel that launched the beat generations literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neil Cassady. Drafted two months before Jack Kerouac began On The Road, Go is the first and most accurate chronicle of the private lives lived by the Beats before they became public figures. In honest, lucid fictional prose designed to capture the events, emotions, and essence of his experience among the Beats, Holmes describes an individualistic postWorld War II New York where crime is celebrated, writing is revered, and parties, booze, discussions, drugs, and sex punctuate li...
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Herbert Huncke: The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired the Beat Generation

By: Hilary Holladay

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Schaffner Press, Inc.: July 2015

Seller ID: 203239

ISBN: 1936182807

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

By: Allen Ginsberg

Price: $7.95

Publisher: City Lights Books: January 2001

Seller ID: 109652

ISBN: 0872860175

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"Allen Ginsberg's Howl & Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. Customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trial at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene.Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, Russian emigre, and Louis Ginsberg, lyric poet and schoolteacher, in Paterson, New Jersey. To these facts Ginsberg adds: "High school in Paterson till 17, Columbia College, merchant marine, Texas and Denver copyboy, Times Squa...
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By: Jack Kerouac

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: August 2008

Seller ID: 141274

ISBN: 0143105469

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road," published as Kerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of "On the Road"--typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A major literary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007, this is the uncut version of an American classic--rougher, wilder, and more provocative than the official work that appeared, heavily edited, in 1957. This version, capturing a moment in creative history, r...
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On the Road: The Original Scroll (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By: Jack Kerouac

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: August 2008

Seller ID: 224035

ISBN: 0143105469

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New Directions: September 2007

Seller ID: 109653

ISBN: 0811217191

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publisher, has become a Mecca for millions. Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind (ND, 1958) is a number one best-selling volume of poetry by any living American poet. Now, New Directions is proud to publish his manifesto in a paperback edition.
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Poetry as Insurgent Art

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New Directions: September 2007

Seller ID: 207380

ISBN: 0811217191

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Queer: 25th-Anniversary Edition

By: William S. Burroughs

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: August 2010

Seller ID: 260156

ISBN: 0143117831

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The definitive 25th-anniversay edition of Burroughs's legendary second novel. Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma-both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, "Naked Lunch." Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, "Queer" follows William Lee's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As Lee breaks down, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges, a man...
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Satori in Paris and Pic: Two Novels (Kerouac, Jack)

By: Jack Kerouac

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Grove Press: January 1994

Seller ID: 202317

ISBN: 0802130615

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Sometimes a Great Notion

By: Ken Kesey

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: June 1988

Seller ID: 136133

ISBN: 0140045295

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sailor Song is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan.A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers: Henry, the fiercely vital and overpowering patriarch; Hank, the son who has spent his life trying to live up to his father; and Viv, who fell in love with Hank's exuberant machismo but now finds it wearing thin. And then there is Leland, Henry's bookish younger son, who returns to his fam...
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The Beats: A Literary Reference

By: N/A

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Carroll & Graf: November 2002

Seller ID: 248008

ISBN: 0786710993

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, light reading wear.
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The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats

By: Allen Ginsberg

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Grove Press: April 2017

Seller ID: 109663

ISBN: 0802126499

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

The Dharma Bums

By: Jack Kerouac

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: February 1991

Seller ID: 150700

ISBN: 0140042520

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac.
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The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

By: Allen Ginsberg

Price: $6.95

Publisher: City Lights Publishers: December 2000

Seller ID: 267458

ISBN: 0872860639

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"National Book Award for Poetry, 1973"Beginning with "long poem of these States," The Fall of America continues Planet News chronicle tape-recorded scribed by hand or sung condensed, the flux of car bus airplane dream consciousness Person during Automated Electronic War years, newspaper headline radio brain auto poesy & silent desk musings, headline flashing on road through these states of consciousness. . . .
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The Herbert Huncke Reader

By: Herbert E Huncke,Benjamin G Schafer

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: September 1998

Seller ID: 215003

ISBN: 0688163467

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Pages unmarked, discoloration to page edges.
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Visions of Cody

By: Jack Kerouac

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: July 1993

Seller ID: 157006

ISBN: 0140179070

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"What I'm beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel and beyond the arbitrary confines of the story. . . . I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart . . . because now I know MY HEART DOES GROW." --Jack Kerouac, in a letter to John Clellon Holmes Written in 1951-52, Visions of Cody was an underground legend by the time it was finally published in 1972. Writing in a radical, experimental form ("the New Journalism fifteen years early," as Dennis McNally noted in Desolate Angel), Kerouac created the ultimate account of his voyages with Neal Cas...
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