Beat Book [Shambhala Sale Edition]
Writings from the Beat Generation
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| Author(s) : Waldman, Anne |
| Publishers Price : £16.50 |
| Wisdom Price : £5.28(save 68%)
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| ISBN : 1590304551 | | EAN : 9781590304556 | | Cover : Paperback | | Pages : 376 | | Size : 214 x 132mm | | Publisher : Shambhala Publications | | Published : 2007 |
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Synopsis:
Sale edition. The Beat poets, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Boroughs, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Michael McLure, Diane Di Prima and others, constituted a major influential arts movement. This is a rich and diverse collection of their work edited by Anne Waldman, who herself was one of the founders of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado.
The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S.Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were "real architects of change - there is no doubt that we're living in a freer America as a result of the Beat literary movement, which is an important part of the larger picture of cultural and political change in this country during the last forty years, when a four-letter word couldn't appear on the printed page and minority rights were ridiculous."
Waldman has gathered in this volume a range of the best and most exemplary writings of the Beat poets and novelists. Selections from the Beat classics appear, as well as more recent prose and poetry demonstrating the continued vitality of the Beat experiment. Included are short biographies of the contributers, an extensive bibliography of the Beat literature, and a unique guide to "Beat places" aroud the world - from Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachussetts, where his novel Dr Sax takes place, to Tangier, where Burroughs wrote parts of Naked Lunch. |
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