Beat Poets by Carmela Ciuraru

Beat Poets by Carmela Ciuraru

This 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 caf s, the Beats gave birth to a literature of previously unimaginable expressive range.

The 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.

Visceral and powerful, infused with an unmediated spiritual and social awareness, this is a rich and varied tribute and, in the populist spirit of the Beats, a vital addition to the libraries of readers everywhere.

Everyman's Library Pocket Poets anthologies Fatherhood, Motherhood, Solitude, Beat Poets, and Doggerel: Poetry About Dogs are edited by Carmela Ciuraru. She is a Brooklyn resident.

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ISBN 13	9780375413322
ISBN 10	0375413324
Title	Beat Poets
Author	Carmela Ciuraru
Series	Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2002-07-09
Number of pages	256
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