Search Results for: The Portable Beat Reader

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. B

Collection of poetry, prose and excepts from writers who were part of the "Beat Generation."

From civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical experiments in the arts,

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

Presents selections from Jack Kerouac's novels, poetry, letters, and essays.