The Beat Vision: A Primary Sourcebook

by Arthur and Kit Knight

The Beat A Primary Arthur and Kit Knight The Beat A Primary Paragon House FIRST First Edition, Fourth Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Paragon House Publishers, 1987. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good with shelf wear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.Seller 342169 Literature We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!

Genres: Poetry

292 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1986

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

An anthology of letters, poems, personal essays by, and interviews with some of the main members of the Beat Generation, collected by the editors of a small magazine about the Beats called the unspeakable visions of the individual. There are letters from Jack Kerouacto Neal Cassady and to Allen Ginsberg. There is a letter from William S. Burroughsin which he describes a dream he had. There is some prose from Allen Ginsberg. There are many photographs as well, some showing members of the Beat Generation when the movement was at its height in the fifties, and others showing them later, in the seventies and early eighties (an example of the latter would be the photograph on the cover of the edition of the book I have, in which Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan are sitting at the grave of Jack Kerouac). The book is particularly good for its interviews, for instance with LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Gregory Corso, and William Burroughs (Burroughs discusses how he approaches recording his dreams, and at one point there is an odd moment when the interviewer describes a dream he had and asks Burroughs what he thinks of it). I particularly like this anthology for its interview with Carl Solomon, a Beat with a Dadaist approach whom I think is overlooked in many discussions on the Beats (many know that Allen Ginsberg dedicated “Howl” to him, but my sense is that few have read his funny works, Mishaps, Perhaps and More Mishaps). Along with the work of the white males like Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs, the book includes the voices of women (Carolyn Cassady, Diane di Prima and Eileen Kaufman) and of persons of color (Amiri Baraka and Ted Joans).

Acquired Feb 10, 2010
Attic Books, London, Ontario

[Ted · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this during my Jack Kerouac phase.