The Beat Book: Writings from the Beat Generation
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ISBN: 1570624275 / Publisher: Shambhala, March 1999
Presents selections from the works of Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsburg, and other writers of the Beat Generation, accompanied by brief biographies and information on the places they lived
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Here is an unusually diverse collection of Beat voices, including not only Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg, but Amiri Baraka, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen. Also included are short biographies of the writers and a "Literary Guide to Beat Places" around the world.
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