Beat Generation

The Beat Generation was a group of American post-World War II writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired. Central elements of "Beat" culture included rejection of received standards, innovations in style, experimentation with drugs, alternative sexualities, an interest in Eastern religion, a rejection of materialism, and explicit portrayals of the human condition. ...more

On the Road
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Howl and Other Poems
The Dharma Bums
Junky
Big Sur
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
The Subterraneans
Queer
Desolation Angels
Visions of Cody
On the Road: The Original Scroll
A Coney Island of the Mind
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
Tristessa
Minor Characters by Joyce JohnsonOff the Road by Carolyn CassadyRecollections of My Life as a Woman by Diane di PrimaHow I Became Hettie Jones by Hettie JonesMemoirs of a Beatnik by Diane di Prima
Women Beats
18 books — 8 voters
On the Road by Jack KerouacHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsA Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Beat Generation Literature
114 books — 51 voters

De Rerum Natura by David HillstromKafka Was the Rage by Anatole BroyardHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanThe Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
Greenwich Village
128 books — 21 voters
On the Road by Jack KerouacJunky by William S. BurroughsHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacChronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan
Beatniks
176 books — 22 voters


Dove-white dawn illumes life’s worth As mourners load crow-black hearse To feed remains to hungry dirt. From nothing to nothing, from dust to dust. Life delays, then betrays; It is death alone that we can trust.
Rick Klaus Theis, Lorca's Grave

The poet floats above— Stateless, ageless, timeless, guileless— A creator of beauty, An excavator of truth, A healer of fear, A harbinger of love.
Rick Klaus Theis, Lorca's Grave

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