The letters of Allen Ginsberg / by Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

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Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg by Schumacher, Michael

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First thought : conversations with Allen Ginsberg / by Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

Table of Contents: “…A conversation with Allen Ginsberg /…”
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Poetry in America. two poems by Allen Ginsberg /...

“…Hymmnn and Hum bom! : two poems by Allen Ginsberg…”
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American scream : Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the making of the Beat Generation / by Raskin, Jonah, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Poetickall Bomshell -- Family Business -- Trilling-esque Sense of "Civilization" -- Juvinescent Savagery -- Just like Russia -- Ladies, We Are Going through Hell -- Another Coast's Apple for the Eye -- Mythological References -- Famous Authorhood -- This Fiction Named Allen Ginsberg -- Best Minds.…”
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The beats in Mexico by Calonne, David Stephen, 1953-

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With Robert Lowell and his circle : Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, and others by Spivack, Kathleen

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Beat sound, Beat vision : the Beat spirit and popular song by Coupe, Laurence, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…'This is IT': Alan Watts and the visionary tradition -- 'Go moan for man': Jack Kerouac and the beatific vision -- 'Vision music': Bob Dylan via Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg -- 'Mantra rock': the Beatles via Allen Ginsberg -- 'Eco-Zen', or 'a heaven in a wild flower': from Gary Snyder to Nick Drake.…”
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Beat sound, Beat vision : the Beat spirit and popular song by Coupe, Laurence, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…'This is IT': Alan Watts and the visionary tradition -- 'Go moan for man': Jack Kerouac and the beatific vision -- 'Vision music': Bob Dylan via Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg -- 'Mantra rock': the Beatles via Allen Ginsberg -- 'Eco-Zen', or 'a heaven in a wild flower': from Gary Snyder to Nick Drake.…”
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Adapting the beat poets : Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouac on screen by Prince, Michael J., 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Cassady: Heart beat and The last time I committed suicide -- The many registers of Allen Ginsberg's Howl -- Jack Kerouac in the contemporary cultural stream: Walter Salles and José Rivera's On the road and Michael Polish's Big Sur -- Conclusion: beat authenticities and the iconic.…”
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Wild combination: a portrait of Arthur Russell.

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Stars in My Eyes. by Bachardy, Don

Table of Contents: “…John -- Allen Ginsberg -- Jack Nicholson -- Helmut Newton -- Jerry Brown.…”
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The men in my life by Gornick, Vivian

Table of Contents: “…Wells: The beginning of wisdom -- Loren Eiseley: Excavating the self -- Randall Jarrell: Reading to save his life -- Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and the end of the Jew as metaphor -- Allen Ginsberg: America's holy fool -- Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, Richard Ford: Tenderhearted men -- James Baldwin and V.S. …”
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Remixthebook by Amerika, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Source material everywhere (the Alfred North Whitehead remix) -- Mind bank network (the Allen Ginsberg remix) -- Artist, medium, instrument (the Nam June Paik remix) -- The renewable tradition (extended play remix) -- Why video games suck (the Ad Reinhardt remix) -- Mark Amerika nature photography (studio remix) -- Situationist comedy (alternative laugh track remix) -- Premonition algorithm (the big kahuna remix).…”
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The daybreak boys : essays on the literature of the beat generation by Stephenson, Gregory, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Circular journey: Jack Kerouac's Duluoz legend -- Allen Ginsberg's "Howl": a reading -- The Gnostic vision of William S. …”
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The Didactic Muse : Scenes of Instruction in Contemporary American Poetry. by Spiegelman, Willard

Table of Contents: “…Auden's New Year Letter -- TWO ; The Tempered Tone of Howard Nemerov; THREE ; The Moral Imperative in Anthony Hecht, Allen Ginsberg, and Robert Pinsky; FOUR ; Myths of Concretion, Myths of Abstraction: The Case of A.R. …”
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The emergence of Buddhist American literature

Table of Contents: “…Finger pointing at the moon : Zen and the poetry of Philip Whalen / Jane Falk -- Keeping vision alive : the Buddhist stillpoint in the work of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg / Erik Mortenson -- Illumination through the cracks : the melting down of conventional socio-religious thought and practice in the work of Gary Snyder / Tom Lavazzi -- The American poetic diamond vehicle : Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman re-work Vajrayana Buddhism / Jane Augustine -- Widening the circle : Buddhism and American writers of color. …”
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The Zapple diaries : the rise and fall of the last Beatles label by Miles, Barry, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…An Apple-Zapple chronology -- Prequel: From Apple to Zapple -- 'Z' is for Zapple -- The idea -- Savile Row -- Blue meanies -- Hells Angels -- East coast -- The Big O -- The poetry farm -- The first trip: LA -- Bukowski -- The first trip: SF -Brautigan -- The first trip: SF -- Ferlinghetti -- McClure -- Back in blighty -- Unfinished music no. 2: Life with the lions -- Electronic sound -- Apple crumble -- The second trip : Allen Ginsberg -- The second trip: LA -- Meanwhile back in the USA.…”
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Writers under surveillance : the FBI files

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Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll : the rise of America's 1960s counterculture by Cottrell, Robert C., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The precursors : from Utopia to Huxley -- Troubadours for a new American Bohemia : Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and the Beats -- The continued reception of the Beats -- From Harvard to Millbrook : Timothy Leary -- The merry prankster : Ken Kesey -- The magic elixir of sex and a touch of anarchism -- The magic in the music -- California dreaming and Haight-Ashbury -- Spreading the word : alternative media -- People of the book -- From the human be-in to the summer of love -- The death of hippie and early postmortems -- Alternative living -- From hippie to yippie on the way to revolution -- Fighting in the streets and the latest battle of the bands -- COINTELPRO and the millennium -- The conspiracy, street fighting man, and the apocalypse -- The not so slow fade -- It's all over now.…”
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Frogments one

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Scattered poems by Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969

Table of Contents: “…-- Daydreams For Ginsberg -- Lucien Midnight -- Someday you'll be lying -- I clearly saw -- HYMN -- Poem: I demand that the human race -- The Thrashing Doves -- The Buddhist Saints -- How To Meditate -- A Pun For Al Gelpi -- Sept. 16, 1961 -- Rimbaud -- from Old Angel Midnight -- More Old Angel Midnight -- Auro Boralis Shomoheen -- Long Dead's Longevity -- Sitting Under Tree Number Two -- A Curse At The Devil -- Sight is just dust -- Poem -- To Edward Dahlberg -- Two Poems -- To Allen Ginsberg -- Poem: Jazz killed itself -- To Harpo Marx -- Hitch Hiker -- Four Poems From "San Francisco Blues" -- from San Francisco Blues -- Blues: And he sits embrowned -- Blues: Part of the morning stars -- Hey listen you poetry audiences -- Some Western Haikus (from Book Of Haiku) -- Some Western Haikus -- Sources -- About the Author -- Copyright Page.…”
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Writing Beat and other occasions of literary mayhem by Tytell, John

Table of Contents: “…How to write an essay -- The writer as peeping John: on the nature of biographical inquiry -- Hemlock or ambrosia: writing and editorial process -- Notes of a peripatetic lecturer -- Senator tripletalk and the American dream -- Passing through: 50 years @ mind factory -- Reconsidering the beats -- The traveling writer: Beat Mexico -- Kerouac's music -- Ginsberg today -- The oppositional writer: Ed Sanders, Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon, William Burroughs, William Gaddis -- The editor as midwife: writers and little magazines -- Metaphysics. …”
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West Coast : Beat and beyond

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Narrowcast : poetry and audio research by Shaw, Lytle

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Ambiguous borderlands : shadow imagery in Cold War American culture by Mortenson, Erik, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…TAKING BACK THE SHADOWS: Allen Ginsberg's and Jack Kerouac's Struggles to Reclaim the American Unconscious; 4. …”
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Race and the modern artist

Table of Contents: “…Lynn Weiss -- A black man in Jewface / Jeffrey Melnick -- Incognito ergo sum: "Ex" marks the spot in Cahan, Johnson, Larsen, and Yezierska / Adam Zachary Newton -- A Jewish new world in Jacob Glatshteyn's "Sheeny Mike" -- Beware of signs; or, how to tell the living from the dead: orality and writing in the work of Pedro Pietri / Alessandro Portelli -- Centralizing the marginal: prolegomena to a study of boundaries in contemporary African American fiction / Fritz Gysin -- When all met together in one room: Josef Jařab interviews Allen Ginsberg / Josef Jařab.…”
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Out of Brownsville : encounters with Nobel laureates and other Jewish writers : a cultural memoir by Chametzky, Jules

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Alfred Kazin -- Norman Podhoretz -- Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Morty Gunty -- Howard Sackler & Friend -- Grace Paley -- Isaac Rosenfeld -- Saul Bellow -- John Berryman -- William Phillips -- Harold Brodkey and Erica Jong -- Irving Howe -- Cynthia Ozick -- Leslie Fiedler -- Tillie Olsen -- Adrienne Rich, Anne Halley, & Marilyn Hacker -- Allen Ginsberg -- Kadya Molodowsky -- Amos Oz, Shirley Kaufman, & Abba Kovner -- Joseph Brodsky -- Maishe Mirsky -- Paolo Milano -- Edward Dahlberg -- Paul Goodman -- Ruth Whitman -- Translations & Transformations -- Harvey Swados -- Clara and Richard Winston -- Melvin Jules Bukiet et al. -- Julius Lester -- Nat Hentoff and Others -- Helen and Jose Yglesias -- Epilogue.…”
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Moloch

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Gang of souls : [a generation of Beat poets]

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The selected letters of Robert Creeley by Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005

Table of Contents: “…FOR LOVE, 1956-1963: NEW MEXICO, GUATEMALA, VANCOUVER; Letter to Mitch Goodman 7/18/56; Letter to William Carlos Williams 8/8/56; Letter to Allen Ginsberg [9/19/56]; Letter to Jack Kerouac 10/11/56; Letter to Mitch Goodman 11/4/56; Letter to William Carlos Williams 1/1/57; Letter to Denise Levertov 1/23/57; Letter to Allen Ginsberg 2/6/57; Letter to Ed Dorn 4/27/57. …”
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Twentieth-Century American Poetry.

Table of Contents: “…Ammons (1926-2001) -- Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) -- Robert Creeley (b. 1926) -- Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) -- James Merrill (1926-1995) -- John Ashbery (b. 1927) -- Galway Kinnell (b. 1927) -- W. …”
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Technomodern poetics : the American literary avant-garde at the start of the Information Age by Tietchen, Todd F.

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Homosexual : oppression and liberation by Altman, Dennis

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Kerouac Ascending : Memorabilia of the Decade of On the Road. by Lenrow, Elbert

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Paging New Jersey : a literary guide to the Garden State by Broderick, James F., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Philip Freneau -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Mary Griffith -- Walt Whitman -- Mary Mapes Dodge -- Thomas Nast -- Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Stephen Crane -- Albert Payson Terhune -- William Carlos Williams -- Joyce Kilmer -- Allen Ginsberg -- Mary Higgins Clark -- Toni Morrison -- Amiri Baraka -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Peter Benchley -- Anna Quindlen -- Cheaper by the dozen -- Goodbye, Columbus -- The Pine Barrens -- Eddie and the Cruisers -- Jersey luck -- Rosamund's vision -- Laying down the law -- One for the money -- Our guys -- Lost legends of New Jersey -- Searching for Captain Kidd's treasure -- Burr, Hamilton, and the duel of history in Weehawken -- The Lindbergh baby kidnapping -- The Hindenburg disaster -- The trials of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter -- Mobbed in New Jersey -- On the (paper) trail of the New Jersey Devil -- Dodge Poetry Festival -- The New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame -- Stages of greatness: a survey of the history of theater in New Jersey -- Reaching critical mass in the Garden State -- Stoned in New Jersey.…”
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Captivity by Derricotte, Toi, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…The Terrible Bright Air -- Boy at the Paterson Falls -- Fears of the Eighth Grade -- The Furious Boy -- In an Urban School -- The Choice -- Letter to Miss Glazer -- The Polishers of Brass -- For the Dishwasher at Boothman's -- Plaid Pants -- Books -- Allen Ginsberg -- Whitman, Come Again to the Cities -- On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses -- A Note on My Son's Face.…”
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William S. Burroughs by Baker, Phil, 1961-

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Jews and Buddhism by Chayes, Bill

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Don't blink : Robert Frank

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