American Experience: A Radical Reader [May 14, 1970] Harold Jaffe and John Tytell A Classic. One of the first Counter Culture books.

American Experience: A Radical Reader

John Tytell

Harold Jaffe

Harper&Row

Naked angels: The lives & literature of the Beat generation

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs―their emergence in the late 1950s as the leading figures of the Beat movement marked one of the most spectacular developments in post-World War II American literature. John Tytell's classic study examines their attempt to redefine a complacent society's notion of sanity and normalcy and to reinvent their own lives through jazz, drugs, and law-breaking, acts that ultimately led to new forms of expression. A fascinating blend of literary and social criticism, history, and biography, Naked Angels is an indispensable introduction to the lives and work of these seminal figures, and an unsurpassed look at the powerful influence they had on the 1960s and beyond.

Naked Angels: The Lives & Literature of the Beat Generation

McGraw-Hill/Higher Education

<p>Reviews the history and literary merit of the famed Beat Generation, placing the movement in its social framework and featuring photographs of the movement's writers, filmmakers, and musicians</p>

Paradise Outlaws: Remembering the Beats

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

William Morrow & Co.

This critical biography of the modern poet and writer Ezra Pound is based both on published personal accounts and interviews with people who knew Pound and many unpublished letters, psychiatric reports and FBI files. Ezra Pound is considered to be a controversial writer with some extreme views and a poet with enormous ambition, self-confidence and pride and a prophetic sense of message and mission. He detested the prospect of his own biography and this is intended to be a balanced and interpretive study which illuminates the tragic circumstances surrounding Pound's poems. It explores the myths behind the man and the different attitudes towards him of those who knew him. By the same author: "Naked Angels - Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation" and "The American Experience - A Radical Reader".

Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

This collection of some of the most intimate portraits of the Beats includes interviews, letters, excerpts of their work and photographs. An excellent chronicle of a unique era.

Kerouac and The Beats

Various Beat Writers

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Marlowe & Co.