The Portable Beat Reader - (Penguin Classics) by Ann Charters (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Through poetry, fiction, essays, song lyrics, letters, and memoir this authoritative single-volume collection of Beat literature captures the triumphant energy of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and many others.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was beat. Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. It was the junk-sick surrealism of William Burroughs; the wild, Whitmanesque poetry of Allen Ginsberg; and the lumberjack Zen of Gary Snyder. <p/><i>The Portable Beat Reader</i> collects the most significant writing of these and fellow members (and spiritual descendants) of the Beat Generation, including Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Bob Dylan, Leroi Jones, and Michael McClure. In poetry, fiction, essays, song lyrics, letters, and memoirs, it captures the triumphant rudeness, energy, and exhilaration of a movement that swept through American letters with hurricane force. <p/>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A deft and definitive collection. It catches the flavor of playful, serious defiance of the whole generation. --Gary Snyder<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Ann Charters</b>, professor of English at the University of Connecticut, has been interested in Beat writers since 1956. After completing her doctorate she worked with Jack Kerouac to compile his bibliography. She has written a literary study of Charles Olson and biographies of black entertainer Bert Williams, and (with her husband) the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. She was the general editor of the two-volume encyclopaedia<i> The Beats: Literary Bohemians In Postwar America</i> and has published a collection of her photographic portraits of well-known writers in the book <i>Beats & Company</i>. She has also edited Jack Kerouac's <i>On the Road</i> for Penguin Modern Classics.
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