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| x William S. Burroughs |
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Nova Express | Cities of the Red Night |
William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914(1914-02-05) – August 2, 1997; pronounced /ˈbʌroʊz/) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his...
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| Junkie | Nova Police | ||||
| The Yage Letters | |||||
| The Last Words of Dutch Schultz | |||||
| Port of Saints | |||||
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| x Jack Kerouac |
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The Town and the City |
Jack Kerouac (pronounced /ˈkɛruːæk, ˈkɛrəwæk/; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet. Alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation, and a literary iconoclast....
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| Desolation Angels | |||||
| Visions of Cody | |||||
| Lonesome Traveler | |||||
| Tristessa | |||||
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| x Allen Ginsberg |
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The Yage Letters |
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (pronounced /ˈɡɪnzbərɡ/; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. Ginsberg is best known for the poem "Howl" (1956), in which he celebrates fellow members of the Beat Generation and critiques what he saw as the...
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| Reality Sandwiches | |||||
| The Fall of America: Poems of These States | |||||
| Planet News | |||||
| Mind Breaths | |||||
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| x Gary Snyder |
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Left out in the rain |
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), as well as an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist (frequently described as the "poet laureate of Deep...
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| Three worlds, three realms, six roads | |||||
| Riprap & Cold Mountain poems | |||||
| The Gary Snyder Reader Vol. II | |||||
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| x Gregory Corso |
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An accidental autobiography |
Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs).
Corso's first volume of poetry The Vestal Lady on...
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| Mindfield | |||||
| Herald of the autochthonic spirit | |||||
| Long Live Man | |||||
| Gasoline & the Vestal Lady on Brattle | |||||
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| x Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
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Pictures of the Gone World |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best...
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| A Coney Island of the Mind | |||||
| Routines, Expanded Edition | |||||
| An artist's diatribe | |||||
| The Street's Kiss | |||||
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| x John Clellon Holmes | Go |
John Clellon Holmes (March 12, 1926 - March 30, 1988), born in Holyoke Massachusetts, was an author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel Go. Go is considered the first "Beat" novel, and depicted events in his life with friends Jack...
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| The Horn | |||||
| x Peter Orlovsky |
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Peter Orlovsky (born July 8, 1933 on the Lower East Side, New York City) is an American poet best known for his lifelong relationship with Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg.
Orlovsky was born to Russian parents named Oleg and Katharina Orlovsky in...
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| x Charles Plymell | Some mothers' sons |
Charles Plymell (also known as Charlie Plymell) is originally from Belle Plain Kansas. He is often overlooked for his involvement as a Beat writer and poet.
In 1935, Charley Plymell's father took his family to Holcomb, Kansas, where Charley was born...
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| Hand on the doorknob | |||||
| Forever wider | |||||
| Are you a kid? | |||||
| Over the stage of Kansas | |||||
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| x Neal Cassady |
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El Primer Tercio |
Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, perhaps best known for being characterized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road...
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| Collected letters, 1944-1967 | |||||
| The first third & other writings | |||||
| Cartas de Amor Ambiguo | |||||
| Grace Beats Karma | |||||
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| x Jerry Kamstra |
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The Frisco Kid |
Jerry Kamstra is an American author and poet. A member of the beat generation, he is most widely known for his novel "The Frisco Kid", which details his experience living in North Beach in the 1950s, at height of the beat movement.
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| Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler | |||||
