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The Last Beatnik

Author : Palescandolo Frank Palescandolo
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440175543
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Last Beatnik written by Palescandolo Frank Palescandolo and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When I was taken to Bellevue Psychiatric Ward I was in a state of severe depression. I huddled within myself, bone against bone, trying to discover surcease in a living center of dead and numbing feeling. I remained in this condition weeks and more until one bright afternoon. I was sitting on a pavilion chair facing the East River swaddled in a gray blanket. A blanket corner flapped open revealing to my eyes a pattern of active ants encircling a cement flower pot. I was struck by a fearless wonder. As I reached out to them lovingly, they chained across the grinning muscles of my face and prickled my face. I crossed my arms as if to embrace them all. I stood tall suddenly, the blanket fell to the ground. I stood naked against the rusted railing of the pavilion. I was free of that clammy fear and most therapeutic of all I was told I began to sob violently that shook a once rigid body into a dawning acquiescence of that day. I was painting to create a distance between myself and the written word. A double view, some say the artist's irony. It is impossible to see irony in one's life without a view apart. A canvas on a distant easel. Is there a plot in my life, a prescription, a set course, a dead reckoning? Finally, I accepted the dictum of ancient source, Amor Fati. Love your life and allow it to play out is potentialities. North. North."

Charlie Brown's America

Author : Blake Scott Ball
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190090480
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Charlie Brown's America written by Blake Scott Ball and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the voices of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts gang. In postwar America, there was no newspaper comic strip more recognizable than Charles Schulz's Peanuts. It was everywhere, not just in thousands of daily newspapers. For nearly fifty years, Peanuts was a mainstay of American popular culture in television, movies, and merchandising, from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to the White House to the breakfast table. Most people have come to associate Peanuts with the innocence of childhood, not the social and political turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s. Some have even argued that Peanuts was so beloved because it was apolitical. The truth, as Blake Scott Ball shows, is that Peanuts was very political. Whether it was the battles over the Vietnam War, racial integration, feminism, or the future of a nuclear world, Peanuts was a daily conversation about very real hopes and fears and the political realities of the Cold War world. As thousands of fan letters, interviews, and behind-the-scenes documents reveal, Charles Schulz used his comic strip to project his ideas to a mass audience and comment on the rapidly changing politics of America. Charlie Brown's America covers all of these debates and much more in a historical journey through the tumultuous decades of the Cold War as seen through the eyes of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang.

The Beat Book

Author : Anne Waldman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781570624278
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book The Beat Book written by Anne Waldman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features poetry and fiction written by authors representative of the Beat movement of the 1950s including classic and recent work, short biographies of the contributors, and a bibliography of Beat literature.

Beat Generation

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846882616
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Beat Generation written by Jack Kerouac and published by . This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Memoirs of a Beatnik

Author : Diane di Prima
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780140235395
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Beatnik written by Diane di Prima and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long regarded as an underground classic for its gritty and unabashedly erotic portrayal of the Beat years, Memoirs of a Beatnik is a moving account of a powerful woman artist coming of age sensually and intellectually in a movement dominated by a small confederacy of men, many of whom she lived with and loved. Filled with anecdotes about her adventures in New York City, Diane di Prima's memoir shows her learning to "raise her rebellion into art," and making her way toward literary success. Memoirs of a Beatnik offers a fascinating narrative about the courage and triumphs of the imagination.

The Beats

Author : Harvey Pekar
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809016494
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Beats written by Harvey Pekar and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the history of the Beat movement, which began in the 1940s, and describes the lives of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs; along with other writers, artists, and events in a graphic novel format.

Howl

Author : Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061137456
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Howl written by Allen Ginsberg and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's Howl is a prophetic masterpiece—an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. This annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's own re-creation of the revolutionary work's composition process—as well as a treasure trove of anecdotes, an intimate look at the poet's writing techniques, and a veritable social history of the 1950s.

Tales of Beatnik Glory

Author : Ed Sanders
Publisher : Stonehill Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Beatnik Glory written by Ed Sanders and published by Stonehill Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sincere young poet seeks fame and fortune amid the coffee houses, sex orgies, political and social protests, and freakish characters of Greenwich Village during the late fifties and early sixties.

Venice West

Author : John Arthur Maynard
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813519654
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Venice West written by John Arthur Maynard and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating book, John Arthur Maynard tells the story of the poets and promoters who invented the Beat Generation and who, in many cases, destroyed themselves in the process. In this look at the least remembered (but in its time, most publicized) beat enclave, Maynard focuses on two of Venice's most newsworthy residentsÐÐLawrence Lipton and Stuart Z. Perkoff. Lipton began as a writer of popular detective stories and screenplays, but was determined to be recognized as a poet and social critic. He eventually published The Holy Barbarians, which helped to create the enduring public image of the beatnik. Stuart Perkoff was a more gifted poet; with fascination and horror, we follow his failed attempts to support his family, his heroin addiction, his first wive's courage and mental fragility, his sexual entanglements, his imprisonment, and the development of his own writing. Other characters who move in and out of the story are Kenneth Rexroth, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg, as well as lesser-known poets, artists, hangers-on, and the many women who were rarely treated as full members of the community.

This Is the Beat Generation

Author : James Campbell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520230330
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book This Is the Beat Generation written by James Campbell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-11-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York in 1944, 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 30. This book charts the transformation of these experiences into literature, and a literary movement that spread across the globe. 35 photos.

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101437138
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement Writers and cultural icons Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the most celebrated names of the Beat Generation, linked together not only by their shared artistic sensibility but also by a deep and abiding friendship, one that colored their lives and greatly influenced their writing. Editors Bill Morgan and David Stanford shed new light on this intimate and influential friendship in this fascinating exchange of letters between Kerouac and Ginsberg, two thirds of which have never been published before. Commencing in 1944 while Ginsberg was a student at Columbia University and continuing until shortly before Kerouac's death in 1969, the two hundred letters included in this book provide astonishing insight into their lives and their writing. While not always in agreement, Ginsberg and Kerouac inspired each other spiritually and creatively, and their letters became a vital workshop for their art. Vivid, engaging, and enthralling, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters provides an unparalleled portrait of the two men who led the cultural and artistic movement that defined their generation.

A Beatnik Trio: Like Crazy, Man / The Far-Out Ones / Beat Girl

Author : Richard E. Geis
Publisher : Stark House Press
ISBN 13 : 9781951473136
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book A Beatnik Trio: Like Crazy, Man / The Far-Out Ones / Beat Girl written by Richard E. Geis and published by Stark House Press. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEATSPOLITATION Today we would call the sensationalizing of the cultural phenomenon known as the beat generation to sell books and movies, Beatsploitation. What you won't be reading in this volume are lost or overlooked classics of Beat Lit. Don't expect to find books the caliber of On the Road, Go, Junky or Last Exit to Brooklyn. The books herein were written to cash in on the beat movement... Although the writers of these books never achieved any literary grandeur, it shouldn't be inferred that they didn't have beatnik cred. Indeed, all three of the authors lived in that milieu-Coons and Golightly in Greenwich Village and Geis in Venice, California. These books don't have any literary pretension of defining what the beat movement was, but rather they reflect the places and period in which beatniks were prevalent. This fact doesn't make these books any less worth the attention of the student of the beat generation. Indeed more can be learned about the reaction of the public to the beatniks than by reading the entire oeuvre of authors such as Kerouac or Ginsberg... -from "How JFK Killed the Beatniks" by Jeff Vorzimmer

Loba

Author : Diane di Prima
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101161795
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Loba written by Diane di Prima and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the femimine, hailed by many as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg's Howl when the first half appeared in 1978. Now published for the first time in its completed form with new material, Loba, "she-wolf" in Spanish explores the wilderness at the heart of experience, through the archetype of the wolf goddess, elemental symbol of complete self-acceptance.

Off the Road

Author : Carolyn Cassady
Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
ISBN 13 : 9780142004265
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Off the Road written by Carolyn Cassady and published by Penguin Mass Market. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neal Cassady was a living legend, his dauntless, wild spirit immortalized in the bible of the Beat generation, Jack Kerouac's On the Road. In this vivid account, Neal's wife captures the turbulence and raw excitement of her years with Cassady, with Kerouac (her sometime lover), and with poet Allen Ginsberg--an intense rival for Neal's affections. The love triangles, nomadic lifestyles, and feverish creative impulses of those at the forefront of this explosive movement are recalled with the clarity that only Carolyn Cassady can offer. Reverberating with all the intensity of the legendary era it chronicles, Off the Road is the authentic story of the people who brought this country into the 1960s.

Howl

Author : Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780141195704
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Howl written by Allen Ginsberg and published by Penguin Modern Classics. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, and broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. The apocalyptic 'Howl', originally written as a performance piece, became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956. It is considered to be one of the defining works of the Beat Generation, standing alongside that of Burroughs, Kerouac, and Corso. In it, Ginsberg attacks what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States at the time, and takes on issues of sex, drugs and race, simultaneously creating what would become the poetic anthem for US counterculture.

The Beat Scene

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Reel art Press
ISBN 13 : 9781909526266
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Beat Scene written by Jack Kerouac and published by Reel art Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent book features a remarkable collection of largely unseen photographs of the Beat Generation by renowned Magnum photographer Burt Glinn. This amazing, untouched treasure trove of images was discovered when R|A|P was working with Burt Glinn's widow, Elena, on a larger retrospective of Glinn's work. The book features black and white shots, and also over 70 images in colour: an extremely rare find, these photographs manage to capture the raw energy of the Beat Generation in a way that has never been seen before in print.

One Last Beat

Author : C V Inman
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book One Last Beat written by C V Inman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Last Beat: A Collection of Beatnik Poems and Paintings by C. V. Inman is a vibrant exploration of the Beat Generation's ethos through a fusion of poetry and visual art. The collection delves into the countercultural spirit of the 1950's and 1960's, capturing the essence of rebellion, nonconformity, and artistic expression that defined the era. Inman's poems echo the rhythmic cadence of the bongo drums and the introspective musings of Beat Generation luminaries like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Each verse serves as a portal into a world where societal norms are questioned, and the pursuit of individuality is celebrated. The accompanying paintings are a visual counterpart, offering a kaleidoscope of colors and shapes that complement and enhance the emotional depth of the poetry. As readers traverse the pages of One Last Beat: A Collection of Beatnik Poems and Paintings by C. V. Inman, they are invited to immerse themselves in the beatnik experience, to feel the pulse of a movement that left an indelible mark on literature and culture. Inman's collection is a testament to the enduring power of words and images to evoke the rebellious spirit of a generation, leaving a lasting impression that lingers in the hearts and minds of those who embark on this poetic journey. Product Description: * Large 8.5 x 11-Inches * High Quality Glossy Cover * Premium Color Interior * Deluxe White Pages * Soft Cover This book is crafted for enthusiasts of the Beat Generation, lovers of poetry, and art aficionados alike. If you appreciate the rebellious spirit, unconventional creativity, and profound expression of the Beatnik movement, this collection of poems and paintings is tailored for you. Whether you seek the rhythmic pulse of poignant verses or the vibrant visual language of artistic rebellion, One Last Beat: A Collection of Beatnik Poems and Paintings by C. V. Inman invites readers who share a passion for countercultural exploration and the enduring legacy of the Beat Generation.