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    Gasoline

    Gregory Corso

    Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series."Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive...
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    Long Live Man

    Gregory Corso

    Long live Man! sings the poet Gregory Corso-despite atom bombs and computers, cold wars that get hot and togetherness that isn't, too many cars and too little love and in these poems he celebrates...
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  • An Accidential Autobiography
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    An Accidential Autobiography

    Gregory Corso

    Fabulous letters from the vagabond Beat poet to his friendsamong them Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. For all his charm and intelligence poet Gregory Corso lived a vagabond life. He never...
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  • The Bookstore Book The Bookstore Book
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    The Bookstore Book

    Ron Kolm

    The Bookstore Book is a memoir by Ron Kolm based on his long career working in New York City bookstores. It has poetry and prose sections, and a long interview with him about the closing of Coliseum...
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  • This Ain't No Holiday Inn
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    This Ain't No Holiday Inn

    James Lough

    During its heyday, the Chelsea Hotel in New York City was a home and safe haven for Bohemian artists, poets, and musicians such as Bob Dylan, Gregory Corso, Alan Ginsberg, Janis Joplin, and Dee Dee...
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  • Sarpedon Sarpedon
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    Sarpedon

    Gregory Corso

    Prior to the publication of his first collection of poetry, The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other Poems (1955), Beat poet Gregory Corso wrote three plays while living as a "stowaway" on the campus of...
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  • Icarus Burning Icarus Burning
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    Icarus Burning

    Hiromi Yoshida

    Hiromi Yoshida’s debut poetry chapbook, Icarus Burning, offers a tantalizing glimpse into the post-9/11 world of fallen icons, failed hook-ups, and burning pianos. Out of this ash heap, Icarus is...
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    Herald Of The Autochthonic Spirit

    Gregory Corso

    Gregory Corso is still kicking "the ivory applecart of tyrannical values," heralding the wild and keenly experienced life. Since the 1950s, when with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others, Corso...
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  • Poems of My Life Poems of My Life
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    Poems of My Life

    Laura Corso

    A book of poetry written by a young woman who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 18 and then with Multiple Sclerosis at 30. This compilation of her poetry reflects both the battles she fought...
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  • Beatchik Beatchik
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    Beatchik

    Jerrine Wire

    It was 1962. We felt something was decaying in the core of American society and that a reaction was stirring, but we didn't know where it would lead. Turned out of her parental home at nineteen,...
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  • Offbeat
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    Offbeat

    David Amram

    David Amram has been described as "the Renaissance man of American Music." His musical career has spanned participating with Jack Kerouac in the original jazz-poetry reading in 1957 in Greenwich...
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  • Offbeat
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    Offbeat

    David Amram

    David Amram has been described as "the Renaissance man of American Music." His musical career has spanned participating with Jack Kerouac in the original jazz-poetry reading in 1957 in Greenwich...
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  • Howl on Trial
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    Howl on Trial

    Bill Morgan

    To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Howl and Other Poems, with nearly one million copies in print, City Lights presents the story of editing, publishing, and defending Allen Ginsberg's landmark...
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  • Beat Film, Beat Writers
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    Beat Film, Beat Writers

    David Stephen Calonne

    Beat Film, Beat Writers is the first monograph to analyze the films of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth weiss, Ron Rice, Robert Frank, Barbara Rubin, Shirley Clarke, William S. Burroughs,...
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  • Walking the London Scene Walking the London Scene
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    Walking the London Scene

    Sydney R Davies

    The 'Beat Generation' were a well travelled crew. Best known for crisscrossing the US in search of adventures, 'kicks', God and each other, they also ventured out to far flung corners of the globe...
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  • The Portrait Gallery Called Existence
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    The Portrait Gallery Called Existence

    Neeli Cherkovski

    In his final book, poet Neeli Cherkovski paints a portrait of his life through luminous details of encounters with his illustrious comrades."A prolific poet and denizen of beatnik cafes who...
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  • East Hill Farm
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    East Hill Farm

    A memoir of the upstate New York getaway where the icons of the Beat Generation gathered.During the late 1960s, when peace, drugs, and free love were direct challenges to conventional society, Allen...
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  • Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio
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    Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio

    _______________ 'A coolly literary masterpiece' - Greil Marcus, Esquire 'Sad, funny, brilliant' - The Daily Telegraph 'In classic fish-out-of-water fashion Young writes with wry amusement alongside...
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    Beat Generation in New York

    Bill Morgan

    Set off on the eternal trail of the Beat experience in the city that inspired many of Jack Kerouac's best-loved novels including On the Road, Vanity of Duluoz, The Town and the City, and Desolation...
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  • Brother-Souls
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    Brother-Souls

    John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were-in Holmes's words-"Brother Souls." Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for...
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  • Gobshite Quarterly 2023, #41/42 Gobshite Quarterly 2023, #41/42
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    Gobshite Quarterly 2023, #41/42

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Fuentes Winner Luisa Valenzuela nails mother-daughter dynamic. Award Winner Ursula K. Le Guin reveals benefits of preaching to the choir. Mahmoud Darwish explores states of siege. Julie Busić reminds...
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  • To An Insane Degree To An Insane Degree
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    To An Insane Degree

    Sandy Diamond

    To An Insane Degree is a poetic memoir spanning the life of artist, Sandy Diamond. Sandy's memoir takes us from her childhood- where she worked in her father's delicatessen side-by-side with...
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  • Beat Scrapbook Beat Scrapbook
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    Beat Scrapbook

    Gerald Nicosia

    Beat Scrapbook, Gerald Nicosia's sixth book of poetry, looks back on his five decades in the Beat world, both as Jack Kerouac's biographer (Memory Babe) and as a member of the San Francisco post-Beat...
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    White Hand Society

    Peter Conners

    In 1960 Timothy Leary was not yet famous - or infamous - and Allen Ginsberg was both. Leary, eager to expand his experiments at the Harvard Psilocybin Project to include accomplished artists and...
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