{"product_id":"the-portable-beat-reader-isbn-9780142437537","title":"The Portable Beat Reader","description":"Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was \"beat.\" Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. It was the junk-sick surrealism of William Burroughs; the wild, Whitmanesque poetry of Allen Ginsberg; and the lumberjack Zen of Gary Snyder. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Portable Beat Reader\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.The Portable Beat Reader\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Variations On A Generation\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Best Minds Of A Generation\"\u003cbr\u003eEast Coast Beats\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditor's Note\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Jack Kerouac\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the Road \u003c\/i\u003e(excerpt)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Subterraneans \u003c\/i\u003e(excerpt)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMexico City Blues \u003c\/i\u003e(excerpt)\u003cbr\u003e211th Chorus\u003cbr\u003e239th Chorus\u003cbr\u003e240th Chorus\u003cbr\u003e241st Chorus\u003cbr\u003e242nd Chorus\u003cbr\u003e\"Essentials of Spontaneous Prose\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Belief \u0026amp; Technique for Modern Prose\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Allen Ginsberg\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Howl\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Footnote to Howl\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A Supermarket in California\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Sunflower Sutra\"\u003cbr\u003e\"America\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Kaddish\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Song\"\u003cbr\u003e\"On Burroughs' Work\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. William Burroughs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJunky\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Yage Letters\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003cbr\u003e\"Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Herbert Huncke\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Elsie John\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Joey Martinez\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. John Clellon Holmes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGo\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Carl Solomon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMishaps, Perhaps\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Gregory Corso\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I Am 25\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Mad Yak\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Vision of Rotterdam\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Bomb\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Marriage\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Variations on a Generation\" (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Heart Beat\"\u003cbr\u003eEnter Neal Cassady\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditor's Note\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Neal Cassady\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLetters to Jack Kerouac, 1947-1950\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Jack Kerouac\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Neal Cassady, early 1951\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Neal Cassady\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe First Third\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Jack Kerouac\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVisions of Cody\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Constantly Risking Absurdity\"\u003cbr\u003eSome San Francisco Renaissance Poets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditor's Note\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Kenneth Rexroth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thou Shalt Not Kill\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Poems from the Japanese\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Rexroth: Shaker and Maker\" by William\u003cbr\u003eEverson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Lawrence Ferlinghetti\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dog\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Constantly Risking Absurdity\"\u003cbr\u003e\"In Goya's greatest scenes . . .\"\u003cbr\u003e\"One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Horn on \u003ci\u003eHowl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Michael McClure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Peyote Poem\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScratching the Beat Surface\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003cbr\u003eIncludes Snyder's poem, \"A Berry Feast,\"  Whalen's poem, \"Plus Ca Change...\"\u003cbr\u003eMcClure's poems, \"Point Lobos: Animism\" and \"For the Death of 100 Whales\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Gary Snyder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mid-August at Sourdough Montain Lookout\u003cbr\u003e\"Milton by Firelight\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Riprap\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Praise for Sick Women\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Night Highway Ninety-nine\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Toji\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Higashi Hongwanji\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Notes on the Religious Tendencies\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Philip Whalen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sourdough Mountain Lookout\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A Dim View of Berkeley in the Spring\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Prose Take-Out, Portland 13:ix:58\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Philip Lamantia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"High\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The night is a space of white marble\"\u003cbr\u003e\"I have given fair warning\"\u003cbr\u003e\"There is this distance between me and what I see\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Fud at Foster's\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Lew Welch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Chicago Poem\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Basic Con\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Taxi Suite—After Anacreon\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Not Yet 40, My Beard Is Already White\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Image, as in a Hexagram\"\u003cbr\u003e\"I Saw Myself\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Bob Kaufman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Round About Midnight\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Jazz Chick\"\u003cbr\u003e\"On\"\u003cbr\u003e\"O-Jazz-O\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A Few Blue Words To The Wise\"\u003cbr\u003eOther Fellow Travelers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditor's Note\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In Memory of Radio\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Way Out West\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Screamers\"\u003cbr\u003eLetter About Kerouac's Prose\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Ray Bremser\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Funny Lotus Blues...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Diane DiPrima\u003cbr\u003e\"Three Laments\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Song for Baby-O, Unborn\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Practice of Magical Evocation\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Poetics\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Brass Furnace Going Out\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Bob Dylan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Blowin' in the Wind\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Times They Are A-Cahngin'\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTarantula\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Brenda Frazer (Bonni Bremser)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Poem to Lee Forest\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Tuli Kupferberg\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Greenwich Village of My Dreams\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e1001 Ways to Beat the Draft\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Jack Micheline\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Poet of the Streets\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Frank O'Hara\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Les Luths\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Post the Lake Poets Ballad\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Personal Poem\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Day Lady Died\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. Peter Orlovsky\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lepers Cry\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. Ed Sanders\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Poem from Jail\" (excerpt)\u003cbr\u003e\"The Cutting Prow\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11. Anne Waldman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Our Past\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12. John Wieners\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A poem for record players\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A poem for tea heads\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A poem for museum goers\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A poem for the insane\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Feminine Soliloquy\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Children of the Working Class\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tales of Beatnik Glory\"\u003cbr\u003eMemoirs and Posthumous Tributes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditor's Note\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Charles Bukowski\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes of a Dirty Old Man\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. William Burroughs, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKentucky Ham\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Carolyn Cassady\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOff the Road\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Diane DiPrima\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDinners and Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Brenda Frazer (Bonnie Bremser)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTroia: Mexican Memoirs\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Brion Gysin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Beat Hotel, Paris\" (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Joyce Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinor Characters\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Hettie Jones\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow I Became Hettie Jones\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. Jan Kerouac\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaby Driver\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. Ken Kesey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Day After Superman Died\" (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11. Michael McClure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mad Cub\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12. Ed Sanders\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTales of Beatnik Glory\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 6\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Unspeakable Visions Of The Individual\"\u003cbr\u003eLater Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditor's Note\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. William Burroughs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNova Express\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Gregory Corso\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Columbia U Poesy Reading—1975\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Whole Mess . . . Almost\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Diane Di Prima\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLoba: Parts I-VIII\u003c\/i\u003e (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Lawrence Ferlinghetti\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Canticle of Jack Kerouac\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Uses of Poetry\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Short Story on a Painting of Gustav Klimt\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Allen Ginsberg\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"First Party at Ken Kesey's\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Wichita Vortex Sutra\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Anti-Vietnam War Peace Mobilization\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Mugging\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Ode to Failure\"\u003cbr\u003e\"White Shroud\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night\"\u003cbr\u003eWriting Letters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Michael McClure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Song (I Work with the Shape)\"\u003cbr\u003e\"It's Nation Time\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Watching the Stolen Rose\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Death of Kin Chuen Louie\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Ed Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hymn to Archilochus\"\u003cbr\u003e\"What Would Tom Paine Do?\" (Song)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Gary Snyder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Smokey the Bear Sutra\"\u003cbr\u003e\"I Went into the Maverick Bar\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Mother Earth: Her Whales\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Bath\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Axe Handles\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Pine Tree Tops\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix—Three Commentators\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Norman Mailer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The White Negro\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Alan Watts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. John Clellon Holmes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Game of the Name\" (excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBooks For Further Reading\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex Of Authors And Titles\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A deft and definitive collection. It catches the flavor of playful, serious defiance of the whole generation.\" —Gary Snyder\u003cb\u003eAnn Charters\u003c\/b\u003e, a Jack Kerouac and Beat Generation scholar, is professor of American Literature emerita at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. in 1966, she worked with Kerouac to compile his bibliography, and was the only biographer who interviewed him about the circumstances in which he wrote his books. She is the author of his first biography, \u003ci\u003eKerouac\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1973. She edited his posthumous poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eScattered Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the editor of numerous books on Beat and other literature, including \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Beat Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Sixties Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeat Down to Your Soul\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Jack Kerouac Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, and two volumes of Kerouac’s \u003ci\u003eSelected Letters\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44885295530213,"sku":"NP9780142437537","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142437537.jpg?v=1767741005","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-portable-beat-reader-isbn-9780142437537","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}