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Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.13 — 121,596 ratings — published 1956
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.47 — 25,797 ratings — published 1985
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.46 — 101,179 ratings — published 1959
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.61 — 462,072 ratings — published 1957
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.84 — 74,057 ratings — published 1953
The Happy Birthday of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.12 — 751 ratings — published 1960
Mindfield: New and Selected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.05 — 446 ratings — published 1989
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.21 — 386,991 ratings — published 2010
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,490 ratings — published 1958
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 104,224 ratings — published 1958
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,891 ratings — published 1959
Turtle Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,723 ratings — published 1974
South of No North (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,942 ratings — published 1973
Plutonian Ode and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.75 — 267 ratings — published 1981
Love is a dog from Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,099 ratings — published 1977
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,429 ratings — published 1992
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,474 ratings — published 1955
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Hymns to St Geryon & Other Poems: [and, Dark brown] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.16 — 25 ratings — published 1969
Would you still love me if I was a worm? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.79 — 81 ratings — published
Crush (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.34 — 44,788 ratings — published 2005
Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.99 — 383 ratings — published
Poems Momma Never Read Me (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Howl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,368 ratings — published 1956
Exterminator! (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,124 ratings — published 1973
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,835 ratings — published 1956
Yesterday I Had the Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.22 — 275 ratings — published 2003
Beat Poets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 632 ratings — published 2002
And Yet: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,729 ratings — published 2022
On Sun Swallowing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,666 ratings — published 2022
Hera Lindsay Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,138 ratings — published 2016
Sweetdark (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,053 ratings — published 2020
Chronicles, Volume One (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 63,299 ratings — published 2004
Tentative Description of a Dinner Given to Promote the Impeachment of President Eisenhower (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published 1958
Hail Thee Who Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1968
Kerhonkson Journal: 1966 (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.45 — 11 ratings — published 1971
The Language of Saxophones: Selected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.41 — 63 ratings — published 2005
Auguries of Innocence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,637 ratings — published 2005
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,175 ratings — published 1963
Myths & Texts (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.11 — 314 ratings — published 1960
Heaven & Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.81 — 375 ratings — published 1977
Sad Dust Glories Poems During Work Summer in Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 1975
Pictures of the Gone World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,577 ratings — published
San Francisco Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.74 — 417 ratings — published 1991
Long Live Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 157 ratings — published 1962
Lunch Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,972 ratings — published 1964
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.83 — 39,182 ratings — published 1962
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,697 ratings — published 1961
The Tapestry and the Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published
Airplane Dreams: Compositions From Journals (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.83 — 12 ratings — published 1968
“Whenever an art form loses its fire, when it gets weakened by intellectual inbreeding and first principles fade into stale tradition, a radical fringe eventually appears to blow it up and rebuild from the rubble. Young Gun ultrarunners were like Lost Generation writers in the ’20s, Beat poets in the ’50s, and rock musicians in the ’60s: they were poor and ignored and free from all expectations and inhibitions. They were body artists, playing with the palette of human endurance.”
― Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
― Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
“The Beats and the Pranksters showed us different ways of opting out of society. They were both the personification of countercultural movements. The Beats were trying to change literature, and the Pranksters were trying to change the people and the country. Kesey, in fact, was his own cultural revolution, striving to keep the upbeat, freedom-loving spirit of America alive.”
― Lord of Publishing: A Memoir
― Lord of Publishing: A Memoir
