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Beat Poets

Hardback

Main Details

Title Beat Poets
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Carmela Ciuraru
SeriesEveryman's Library POCKET POETS
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 166,Width 114
Category/GenrePoetry anthologies
ISBN/Barcode 9781841597492
ClassificationsDewey:811.5408
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Everyman
Imprint Everyman's Library
Publication Date 29 August 2002
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century counter-cultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish in smoke-filled cafes, 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 di Prima 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.

Author Biography

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.