{"product_id":"beat-poets-isbn-9780375413322","title":"Beat Poets","description":"\u003cb\u003eVisceral and powerful, infused with an unmediated spiritual and social awareness, the poetry of the Beats is presented here in a stunning and portable hardcover selection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century countercultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish in smoke-filled cafés, the Beats gave birth to a literature of previously unimaginable expressive range.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 DiPrima 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.\u003ci\u003eForeword \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRAY BREMSER (1934–98)\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003ePoems of Madness (“City Madness”)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGREGORY CORSO (1930–2001)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eHello\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eOde to Coit Tower \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eTransformation \u0026amp; Escape\u003cbr\u003eI Am 25\u003cbr\u003ePoets Hitchhiking on the Highway\u003cbr\u003eAway One Year \u003cbr\u003eAfter Reading “In the Clearing” \u003cbr\u003eWrit on the Eve of My 32nd Birthday\u003cbr\u003eSecond Night in N.Y.C. After 3 Years \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eELISE COWEN (1933–62)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Trust yourself—but not too far” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eROBERT CREELEY (1926– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eChasing the Bird\u003cbr\u003eThe Dishonest Mailmen\u003cbr\u003eI Know a Man \u003cbr\u003eThe End \u003cbr\u003eThe Hill \u003cbr\u003eThe Rain\u003cbr\u003eFor Love\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDIANE di PRIMA (1934– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eRevolutionary Letter #1\u003cbr\u003ePoem in Praise of My Husband (Taos)\u003cbr\u003eThe Quarrel \u003cbr\u003eApril Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa \u003cbr\u003ePoetics \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI (1919– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e#9 (“Truth is not the secret of a few”)\u003cbr\u003e#13 (“It was a face which darkness could kill”) \u003cbr\u003e#22 (“crazy to be alive in such a strange world”) \u003cbr\u003e#39 (“A blockage in the bowel”’) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eALLEN GINSBERG (1926–97)\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eHowl \u003cbr\u003e“Back on Times Square, Dreaming of Times Square” \u003cbr\u003eMy Alba \u003cbr\u003eSong \u003cbr\u003eMalest Cornifici Tuo Catullo \u003cbr\u003eTears\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eKaddish \u003cbr\u003eA Supermarket in California \u003cbr\u003eSunflower Sutra \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eAmerica \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBARBARA GUEST (1923– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eParachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher \u003cbr\u003eSunday Evening\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLEROI JONES (Amiri Baraka) (1934– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ePreface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note\u003cbr\u003eSex, like desire \u003cbr\u003eWar Poem \u003cbr\u003ePolitical Poem \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLENORE KANDEL (1932– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eEnlightenment Poem \u003cbr\u003eBlues for Sister Sally \u003cbr\u003eJunk\/Angel \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBOB KAUFMAN (1925–86)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBenediction \u003cbr\u003eWest Coast Sounds—1956 \u003cbr\u003eFragment\u003cbr\u003eGinsberg (for Allen)\u003cbr\u003eAbomunist Manifesto \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJACK KEROUAC (1922–69)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMexican Loneliness\u003cbr\u003eHow to Meditate\u003cbr\u003eA Sudden Sketch Poem \u003cbr\u003e 116\u003cbr\u003eHymn\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eMexico City Blues\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTULI KUPFERBERG (1923– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“I dreamed of a bum seven foot tall” \u003cbr\u003e“My muse goosed me” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJOANNE KYGER (1934– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“It is lonely”\u003cbr\u003e“My father died this spring” \u003cbr\u003eMay 29 \u003cbr\u003e“It’s a great day”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePHILIP LAMANTIA (1927– )\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eHypodermic Light\u003cbr\u003eHigh \u003cbr\u003e“Man is in pain”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDENISE LEVERTOV (1923–97)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Gypsy’s Window \u003cbr\u003eThe Flight \u003cbr\u003eThe Marriage \u003cbr\u003eThe Marriage (II) \u003cbr\u003ePoem from Manhattan \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJOANNA McCLURE (1930– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA Vacancy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMICHAEL McCLURE (1932– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Flowers of Politics (I) \u003cbr\u003eThe Flowers of Politics (II)\u003cbr\u003eMad Sonnet 13 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDAVID MELTZER (1937– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eFrom the Untitled Epic Poem \u003cbr\u003e6th Raga: For Bob Alexander \u003cbr\u003e15th Raga: For Bela Lugosi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHAROLD NORSE (1916– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ePicasso Visits Braque \u003cbr\u003eI Would Not Recommend Love\u003cbr\u003e“I Have Always Liked George Gershwin More than Ernest Hemingway” \u003cbr\u003eI Have Seen the Light and It Is My Mind\u003cbr\u003eHotel Nirvana \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFRANK O’HARA (1926–66)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ePersonal Poem \u003cbr\u003eAutobiographia Literaria \u003cbr\u003eToday\u003cbr\u003eMy Heart \u003cbr\u003eAvenue A\u003cbr\u003eNow That I Am in Madrid and Can Think \u003cbr\u003eHaving a Coke With You \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePETER ORLOVSKY (1933– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ePeter’s Jealous of Allen \u003cbr\u003e“Writing poems is a Saintly thing”\u003cbr\u003eSome One Liked Me When I Was Twelve\u003cbr\u003eCollaboration: Letter to Charlie Chaplin \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMARIE PONSOT (1921– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTake My Disproportionate Desire \u003cbr\u003eMatins \u0026amp; Lauds \u003cbr\u003eCommunion of Saints: The Poor Bastard Under the Bridge \u003cbr\u003eEaster Saturday, NY, NY \u003cbr\u003eRockefeller the Center \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGARY SNYDER (1930– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMigration of Birds \u003cbr\u003eA Sinecure for P. Whalen \u003cbr\u003eUnder the Skin of It\u003cbr\u003eAugust on Sourdough, a Visit from Dick Brewer \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eANNE WALDMAN (1945– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eHow the Sestina (Yawn) Works\u003cbr\u003eRevolution \u003cbr\u003eDiaries \u003cbr\u003eThe Blue That Reminds Me of the Boat When She Left\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLEW WELCH (1926–72)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Whenever I make a new poem” \u003cbr\u003e“I know a man’s supposed to have his hair cut short” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePHILIP WHALEN (1923– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eFor C. \u003cbr\u003e20:vii:58, On Which I Renounce the Notion of Social Responsibility \u003cbr\u003eProse Take-Out, Portland, 13:ix:58\u003cbr\u003eSomething Nice About Myself \u003cbr\u003eTrue Confessions \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJOHN WIENERS (1934– )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA Poem for Tea Heads \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eA Poem for Painters \u003cbr\u003eA Poem for the Insane \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLETTERS, ENCOUNTERS, \u0026amp; STATEMENTS\u003cbr\u003eON POETICS\u003cbr\u003eDonald Allen (1912– ) \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Burroughs (1914–97) \u003cbr\u003eGregory Corso \u003cbr\u003eLawrence Ferlinghetti \u003cbr\u003eAllen Ginsberg \u003cbr\u003eJack Kerouac\u003cbr\u003eFrank O’Hara \u003cbr\u003ePeter Orlovsky \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex of First Lines\u003c\/i\u003eCARMELA CIUARA is the editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eFirst Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential   Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them,\u003c\/i\u003e and the former editor of the\u003ci\u003e Journal of   the Poetry Society of America\u003c\/i\u003e. 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