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Ann Charters (Ed.): The Portable Beat Reader. London ... : Penguin, 1992 (Penguin Classics) (Englisch) 


== TABLE OF CONTENTS ==


=== Introduction - “Variations On A Generation” ===


=== Part I - “The Best Minds Of A Generation” ===

East Coast Beats


==== 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


==== 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


==== 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


==== 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-Changin'”

“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


==== 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 (Bonnie Bremser) ====

Troia: Mexican Memoirs (excerpt)

==== 6. Brion Gysin ====

“The Beat Hotel, Paris” (excerpt)

==== 7. Joyce Johnson ====

Minor Characters (excerpt)

==== 8. Hettie Jones ====

How I Became Hettie Jones (excerpt)

==== 9. Jan Kerouac ====

Baby Driver (excerpt)

==== 10. Ken Kesey ====

“The Day After Superman Died” (excerpt)

==== 11. Michael McClure ====

The Mad Cub (excerpt)

==== 12. Ed Sanders ====

Tales of Beatnik Glory (excerpt)

=== Part 6 - “The Unspeakable Visions Of The Individual” ===

Later Work


==== 1. William Burroughs ====

Nova Express (excerpt)

==== 2. Gregory Corso ====

“Columbia U Poesy Reading—1975″

“The Whole Mess . . . Almost”

==== 3. Diane Di Prima ====

“April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa”

Loba: Parts I-VIII (excerpt)

==== 4. Lawrence Ferlinghetti ====

“The Canticle of Jack Kerouac”

“Uses of Poetry”

“Short Story on a Painting of Gustav Klimt”

==== 5. Allen Ginsberg ====

“First Party at Ken Kesey’s”

“Wichita Vortex Sutra”

“Anti-Vietnam War Peace Mobilization”

“Mugging”

“Ode to Failure”

“White Shroud”

“Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night”

Writing Letters

==== 6. Michael McClure ====

“Song (I Work with the Shape)”

“It’s Nation Time”

“Watching the Stolen Rose”

“The Death of Kin Chuen Louie”

==== 7. Ed Sanders ====

“Hymn to Archilochus”

“What Would Tom Paine Do?” (Song)

==== 8. Gary Snyder ====

“Smokey the Bear Sutra”

“I Went into the Maverick Bar”

“Mother Earth: Her Whales”

“The Bath”

“Axe Handles”

“Pine Tree Tops”

=== Appendix—Three Commentators ===


==== 1. Norman Mailer ====

“The White Negro”

==== 2. Alan Watts ====

“Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen”

==== 3. John Clellon Holmes ====

“The Game of the Name” (excerpt)


=== Appendix ===

Books For Further Reading

Index Of Authors And Titles