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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist
£11.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141399010 | ISBN 10: 0141399015
A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lectures  In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem 'Howl' and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781611804171 | ISBN 10: 1611804175
It’s been said that Jack Kerouac made it cool to be a thinking person seeking a spiritual experience. And there is no doubt that the writers he knew and inspired - iconic figures like Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gary Snyder, and Michael M ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141399027 | ISBN 10: 0141399023
Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead. Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 A.M. Allen Ginsberg wrote incessantly for more than fifty years, and many of the poems collected for the first time in this vo ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141398990 | ISBN 10: 014139899x
Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face and political causes familiar to millions who had never even read his poetry. And yet he is a figure that remains little underst ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241955819 | ISBN 10: 0241955815
Iain Sinclair looks to the open road and the Beat Generation in American Smoke. Iain Sinclair breaks for the border with American Smoke, his first full engagement with the memory- filled landscapes of the American Beats and their fellow tra ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141189802 | ISBN 10: 0141189800
These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the Beat Generation. Written mostly to Ginsberg or Kerouac, the letters provide a rare glimpse into Burroughs's psyche, revealing ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141198231 | ISBN 10: 0141198230
This semi-autobiographical tale of Kerouac's own trip to France, to trace his ancestors and explore his own understanding of the Buddhism that came to define his beliefs, contains some of Kerouac's most lyrical descriptions. From his reports of the s ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141198224 | ISBN 10: 0141198222
An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays. Transcribing taped conversations between ... more
View book details£15.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780719071133 | ISBN 10: 0719071135
This book reveals the ideas behind the Beat vision which influenced the Beat sound of the songwriters who followed on from them. Having explored the thinking of Alan Watts, who coined the term ‘Beat Zen’, and who influenced the counter ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780872865112 | ISBN 10: 0872865118
Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish," a long poem written about the madness and death of his mother, Naomi, is widely considered to be one his major works. This special fiftieth-anniversary edition of Kaddish & Other Poems features an illuminating afterw ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141189918 | ISBN 10: 0141189916
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 pa ... more
View book details£12.00 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780285638587 | ISBN 10: 0285638580
During World War Two a group of friends in New York would begin a cultural revolution. Over the following decades Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs would write their own masterpieces but taken together, as the Beats, they would al ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781851685424 | ISBN 10: 1851685421
The Beat Generation were a revolutionary group of American writers in the late 50s and early 60s who fused an open approach to literature with a bohemian lifestyle. Immortalized through Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s Howl, their relaxed, gritty ... more
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