The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)

The Portable Beat ReaderIntroduction "Variations On A Generation" Part I "The Best Minds Of A Generation" East Coast Beats Editor's Note 1. Jack Kerouac On the Road (excerpt) The Subterraneans (excerpt) Mexico City Blues (excerpt) 211th Chorus 239th Chorus 240th Chorus 241st Chorus 242nd Chorus "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" "Belief & Technique for Modern Prose 2. Allen Ginsberg "Howl" "Footnote to Howl" "A Supermarket in California" "Sunflower Sutra" "America" "Kaddish" "Song" "On Burroughs' Work" 3. William Burroughs Junky (excerpt) The Yage Letters (excerpt) Naked Lunch (excerpt) "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness" 4. Herbert Huncke "Elsie John" "Joey Martinez" 5. John Clellon Holmes Go (excerpt) 6. Carl Solomon Mishaps, Perhaps (excerpt) 7. Gregory Corso "I Am 25" "The Mad Yak" "Vision of Rotterdam" "Bomb" "Marriage" "Variations on a Generation" (excerpt) Part 2 "Heart Beat" Enter Neal Cassady Editor's Note 1. Neal Cassady Letters to Jack Kerouac, 1947-1950 2. Jack Kerouac Letter to Neal Cassady, early 1951 3. Neal Cassady The First Third (excerpt) 4. Jack Kerouac Visions of Cody (excerpt) Part 3 "Constantly Risking Absurdity" Some San Francisco Renaissance Poets Editor's Note 1. Kenneth Rexroth "Thou Shalt Not Kill" "Poems from the Japanese" "Rexroth: Shaker and Maker" by William Everson 2. Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Dog" "Constantly Risking Absurdity" "In Goya's greatest scenes . . ." "One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro" "Horn on Howl 3. Michael McClure "Peyote Poem" Scratching the Beat Surface (excerpt) Includes Snyder's poem, "A Berry Feast," Whalen's poem, "Plus Ca Change..." McClure's poems, "Point Lobos: Animism" and "For the Death of 100 Whales" 4. Gary Snyder "Mid-August at Sourdough Montain Lookout "Milton by Firelight" "Riprap" "Praise for Sick Women" "Night Highway Ninety-nine" "Toji" "Higashi Hongwanji" "Notes on the Religious Tendencies" 5. Philip Whalen "Sourdough Mountain Lookout" "A Dim View of Berkeley in the Spring" "Prose Take-Out, Portland 13:ix:58" 6. Philip Lamantia "High" "The night is a space of white marble" "I have given fair warning" "There is this distance between me and what I see" "Fud at Foster's" 7. Lew Welch "Chicago Poem" "The Basic Con" "Taxi Suite-After Anacreon" "Not Yet 40, My Beard Is Already White" "The Image, as in a Hexagram" "I Saw Myself" 8. Bob Kaufman "Round About Midnight" "Jazz Chick" "On" "O-Jazz-O" Part 4 "A Few Blue Words To The Wise" Other Fellow Travelers Editor's Note 1. Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) "In Memory of Radio" "Way Out West" "The Screamers" Letter About Kerouac's Prose 2. Ray Bremser "Funny Lotus Blues..." 3. Diane DiPrima "Three Laments" "Song for Baby-O, Unborn" "The Practice of Magical Evocation" "Poetics" "Brass Furnace Going Out" 4. Bob Dylan "Blowin' in the Wind" "The Times They Are A-Cahngin'" "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" Tarantula (excerpt) 5. Brenda Frazer (Bonni Bremser) "Poem to Lee Forest" 6. Tuli Kupferberg "Greenwich Village of My Dreams" 1001 Ways to Beat the Draft (excerpt) 7. Jack Micheline "Poet of the Streets" 8. Frank O'Hara "Les Luths" "Post the Lake Poets Ballad" "Personal Poem" "The Day Lady Died" 9. Peter Orlovsky "Lepers Cry" 10. Ed Sanders "Poem from Jail" (excerpt) "The Cutting Prow" 11. Anne Waldman "Our Past" 12. John Wieners "A poem for record players" "A poem for tea heads" "A poem for museum goers" "A poem for the insane" "Feminine Soliloquy" "Children of the Working Class" Part 5 "Tales of Beatnik Glory" Memoirs and Posthumous Tributes Editor's Note 1. Charles Bukowski Notes of a Dirty Old Man (excerpt) 2. William Burroughs, Jr. Kentucky Ham (excerpt) 3. Carolyn Cassady Off the Road (excerpt) 4. Diane DiPrima Dinners and Nightmares (excerpt) 5. Brenda Frazer