Expanded 50th anniversary edition of the City Lights classic of eco-feminist-Zen Beat poetry, featuring fifteen new poems. Simultaneously released with Diane di Prima'sSpring and Autumn Annals on the one-year anniversary of her passing.
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The Beats: Poetry, Writing & Life
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Revolutionary Letters
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Mule Kick Blues
The final book of poems from a Beat Generation legend, Mule Kick Blues finds McClure restlessly innovating until the end.
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Writing Across the Landscape
Over the course of an adventured-filled life (now in its eleventh decade!) Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been many things: a poet, painter, pacifist, publisher, courageous defender of free speech, and owner of San Francis
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Don't Hide the Madness
Two seminal figures of the Beat movement, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, discuss literary influences and personal history in a never-before-published three-day conversation following the release of the David Cronenberg film of Burroughs classic novelNaked Lunch.
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Best Minds of My Generation
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Hard to Be a Saint in the City
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Wait Till I'm Dead
Allen Ginsberg's poems, from 'Howl' to 'Kaddish' to 'The Fall of America,' have influenced generations of writers and made him a defining figure of the twentieth century. Ginsberg's Collected Poems, first published in 1984, and expanded in 1997, was originally thought to contain all of his poetic work.
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On the Road
Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback
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This Present Moment
For his first collection of new poems since his celebrated Danger on Peaks, published in 2004, Gary Snyder finds himself ranging over the planet.
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Hiparama of the Classics
|Lord Buckley, His Royal Hipness, AKA the Charlie Parker of Talk, was an American performer, recording artist, and hip poet/comic who, in the 1940s and 50s, created a character that was, according to the New York Times, An unlikely persona . . .
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City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
Printer's ink is the greatest explosive."-Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Essential Ginsberg
|One of the Beat Generation’s most renowned poets and writers, Allen Ginsberg became internationally famous not only for his published works but for his actions as a human rights activist who championed the sexual revolution, human rights, gay liberation, Buddhism and eastern religion, and the confrontation of societal norms—all before i
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Poetry Deal
|"A prolific writer generally associated with the Beat Generation, di Prima deserves wider recognition." - Library Journal
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Nobody Home
In this thoughtful, affectionate collection of interviews and letters spanning three decades, beloved poet Gary Snyder talks with South African writer and scholar Julia Martin.
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