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Go by John Clellon Holmes; James Atlas (Foreword by); Seymour Krim (Afterword by); Ann Charters (Afterword by)
Call Number: PS 3558 .O359 G6 1997
ISBN: 9781560254249
Publication Date: 2002
In honest, lucid fictional prose designed to capture the events, emotions, and essence of his experience among the Beats, Holmes describes an individualistic post World War II New York where crime is celebrated, writing is revered, and parties, booze, discussions, drugs, and sex punctuate life.
The Yage Letters Redux by William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Oliver Harris (Editor)
Call Number: PS 3552 .U75 Z48 2006
ISBN: 9780872864481
Publication Date: 2006
In January 1953, William S. Burroughs began an expedition into the jungles of South America to find yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. From the notebooks he kept and the letters he wrote home to Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs composed a narrative of his adventures that later appeared as The Yage Letters.
The First Third by Neal Cassady; Carolyn Cassady (Afterword by); Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Notes by)
Call Number: CT 275 .C34 A3 1981
ISBN: 9780872860056
Publication Date: 2001
Here are his autobiographical writings, the rambling American saga of a truly free individual.
A Coney Island of the mind, poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Call Number: PS 3511 .E557 C6 1958
Publication Date: 1958
Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac
Call Number: PS3521 .E735 M4 1990
ISBN: 9780802130600
Publication Date: 1994
Kerouac's most important poem, Mexico City Blues, incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format of the blues to create an original and moving epic.
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems by Gary Snyder
Call Number: PS 3569 .N88 R5 2009
ISBN: 9781582435411
Publication Date: 2009
Riprap, his first book of poems, was published in Japan in 1959 by Origin Press, and it is the 50th anniversary of that groundbreaking book that is celebrated with this new edition.
Long Live Man by Gregory Corso
Call Number: PS 3505 .O763 L6 1962
ISBN: 0811200256
Publication Date: 1962
Corso, Long Live Man. Poetry that jubilates over being a "(hu-)man, Alive, here in the moment."
Books on William Burroughs
Literary Outlaw by Ted Morgan
Call Number: PS 3552 .U75 Z745 2012
ISBN: 0393342603
Publication Date: 2012
With a new preface as well as a final chapter on William S. Burroughs's last years, the acclaimed Literary Outlaw is the only existing full biography of an extraordinary figure.
Shift Linguals by Edward S. Robinson
Call Number: ONLINE/ E-BOOK
ISBN: 9789042033047
Publication Date: 2011
Shift Linguals traces a history of the cut-up method, the experimental writing practice discovered by Brion Gysin and made famous by Beat author William S. Burroughs.
Retaking the Universe by Davis Schneiderman; Philip Walsh
Call Number: ONLINE/E-BOOK
ISBN: 1435661281
Publication Date: 2004
This collection of essays by leading scholars offers an interdisciplinary consideration of Burroughs's art. It links his lived experience to his many major prose works written from 1953 on, as well his sound, cinema and media projects. Moving beyond the merely literary, the contributors argue for the continuing social and political relevance of Burroughs's work for the emerging global order.
William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination by Oliver Harris
Call Number: ONLINE/E-BOOK
ISBN: 9781429417594
Publication Date: 2003
Wising up the Marks by Timothy S. Murphy
Call Number: ONLINE/E-BOOK
ISBN: 0585261636
Publication Date: 1997
Written by William Burrough
The Yage Letters Redux by William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Oliver Harris (Editor)
Call Number: PS 3552 .U75 Z48 2006
ISBN: 9780872864481
Publication Date: 2006
In January 1953, William S. Burroughs began an expedition into the jungles of South America to find yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. From the notebooks he kept and the letters he wrote home to Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs composed a narrative of his adventures that later appeared as The Yage Letters.
Books on the Beats
The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters (Editor)
Call Number: PS 536 .P67 1992
ISBN: 9780142437537
Publication Date: 2003
The Portable Beat Reader collects the most significant writing of these and fellow members (and spiritual descendants) of the Beat Generation, including Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Bob Dylan, Leroi Jones, and Michael McClure. In poetry, fiction, essays, song lyrics, letters, and memoirs, it captures the triumphant rudeness, energy, and exhilaration of a movement that swept through American letters with hurricane force.
Beat down to Your Soul by Ann Charters
Call Number: PS 228 .B6 B39 2001
ISBN: 0141001518
Publication Date: 2001
In this companion anthology to "The Portable Beat Reader", Charters brings together more than 75 essays, reviews, poems, and sketches that evoke the credos and controversies of the Beat generation writers of the 1950s.
Brother-Souls by Ann Charters; Samuel Barclay Charters
Call Number: ONLINE/E-BOOK
ISBN: 9781604735802
Publication Date: 2010
These two ambitious writers, Holmes and Kerouac, shared days and nights arguing over what writing should be, wandering from one explosive party to the next, and hanging on the new sounds of bebop. Through the pages of Holmes's journals, often written the morning after the events they recount, Charters discovered and mined an unparalleled trove describing the seminal figures of the Beat Generation: Holmes, Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and their friends and lovers.
This Is the Beat Generation by James Campbell
Call Number: PS 226 .B6 C36 2001
ISBN: 0520230337
Publication Date: 2001
Beginning in New York in 1944, James Campbell finds the leading members of what was to become the Beat Generation in the shadows of madness and criminality. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs had each seen the insides of a mental hospital and a prison by the age of thirty.
Naked Angels by John Tytell
Call Number: PS 228 .B6 T9 2006
ISBN: 1566636833
Publication Date: 2006
A handbook for conscious personal and planetary change that will transform the current world crisis into planetary shift toward the mind of God. Outlines the issue plaguing the world and moving it toward breakdown. Replaces the limited consciousness of our failing society with the quantum consciousness that is rooted in the new science field. Provides a specific process to shift consciousness, The Future of the Future.
The Beats by Harvey Pekar; Paul Buhle (Editor); Ed Piskor (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novel Pekar
ISBN: 9780809094967
Publication Date: 2009
InThe Beats: A Graphic History, those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself. Told by the comic legend Harvey Pekar, his frequent artistic collaborator Ed Piskor, and a range of artists and writers, including the feminist comic creator Trina Robbins and the Mad magazine artist Peter Kuper,The Beats takes us on a wild tour of a generation that, in the face of mainstream American conformity and conservatism, became known for its determined uprootedness, aggressive addictions, and startling creativity and experimentation.
Books on Jack Kerouac
Kerouac's Crooked Road by Tim Hunt
Call Number: ONLINE/E-BOOK
ISBN: 9780809329700
Publication Date: 2010
Author Tim Hunt explores Kerouac's creative process and puts his work in conversation with classic American literature and with critical theory.
The Portable Jack Kerouac by Jack Kerouac; Ann Charters (Editor)
Call Number: PS 3521 .E735 A6 1996
ISBN: 0140178198
Publication Date: 1996
This one-volume omnibus, planned by the author before his death and now completed by his biographer, Ann Charters, makes clear the ambition and accomplishment of Jack Kerouac's " Legend of Duluoz " - the story of his life told in the course of his many "true-story novels," including On the Road.
Kerouac by Ann Charters; Allen Ginsberg (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS 3521 .E735 Z6 1994
ISBN: 0312113471
Publication Date: 1994
Kerouac's view of the promise of America, the seductive and lovely vision of the beckoning open spaces of our continent, has never been expressed better by subsequent writers, perhaps because Kerouac was our last writer to believe in America's promise--and essential innocence--as the legacy he would explore in his autobiographical fiction.
The Voice Is All by Joyce Johnson
Call Number: PS 3521 .E735 Z733 2012
ISBN: 9780670025107
Publication Date: 2012
Looking more deeply than previous biographers into how Kerouac's French Canadian background enriched his prose and gave him a unique outsider's vision of America, she tracks his development from boyhood through the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in the composition of On the Road, followed by Visions of Cody.
Films about the Beats
Howl
Call Number: Media Drama Howl 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Allen Ginsberg recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to the most timeless, electrifying, and controversial work of his career. Pushing the limits and challenging the mainstream, the passionate and provocative Howl and its publisher find themselves on trial for obscenity, with prosecutor Ralph McIntosh setting out to have the book banned, while defense attorney Jake Ehrlich fervently argues for freedom of speech and creative expression.
On the Road
Call Number: Media Action On 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Traveling cross-country, young writer Sal Paradise has his life shaken by the arrival of free-spirited Dean Moriarty and his girl, Marylou. As they travel across the country, they encounter a mix of people who each impact their journey indelibly
Allen Ginsberg and Friends
Call Number: Films On Demand Collection
This program features readings and comments by the late Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg analyzes the poetry of Blake, then reads from his own poems, "Do the Meditation Rock" and "Skeleton. Other poets include Vietnamese-born Le Thi Diem Thuy, Robert Hass, Mark Doty, Marie Howe, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Komunyakaa, Li-Young Lee, Louis Jenkins, and Hass discuss poetic interpretations of personal and political history, and provide examples through readings from their poems.
Books on Allen Ginsgerg
American Scream by Jonah Raskin
Call Number: ONLINE/E-BOOK
ISBN: 9780520939349
Publication Date: 2004
This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in which it was written and gives striking new portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. Drawing from newly released psychiatric reports on Ginsberg, from interviews with his psychiatrist, Dr. Philip Hicks, and from the poet's journals, American Scream shows how Howl brought Ginsberg and the world out of the closet of a repressive society.
The Works of Allen Ginsberg, 1941-1994 by Bill Morgan
Call Number: ONLINE/E-BOOK
ISBN: 9780313293894
Publication Date: 1995
A long overdue comprehensive bibliography on the avant-garde poet and popular culture icon, covering the years 1941 to 1994, prepared with the cooperation of Ginzberg himself.
Written by Allen Ginsberg
The Letters of Allen Ginsberg by Allen Ginsberg; Bill Morgan
Call Number: ONLINE/E-BOOK
ISBN: 9780786726011
Publication Date: 2008
Drawing from numerous sources, this collection is both a riveting life in letters and an intimate guide to understanding an entire creative generation.
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg; William Carlos Williams (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS 3513 .I74 H6 2003
ISBN: 0872860175
Publication Date: 2001
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.
Written by Jack Kerouac
On the Road by Jack Kerouac; Howard Cunnell (Editor, Contribution by); Penny Vlagopoulos (Introduction by); George Mouratidis (Introduction by); Joshua Kupetz (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS 3521 .E735 O5 2008
ISBN: 9780143105466
Publication Date: 2008
This version, capturing a moment in creative history, represents the first full expression of Kerouac's revolutionary aesthetic.