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  <title><![CDATA[The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;From the Beat poetry of the '50s to the spoken word of today, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry brings readers the words, visions, and extravagant lives of bohemians, beatniks, hippies, punks, and slackers. Like Donald Allen's epochal New American Poetry, The Outlaw Bible will serve as a primer for generational revolt and poetic expression, and is an enduring document of the visionary tradition of authenticity and nonconformity in literature. This exuberant manifesto includes lives of the poets, on-the-scene testimony, seminal underground articles never before collected, photographs of clubs and cafes, interviews, and, above all, the poems.&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1999</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alan Kaufman]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[All poetry lovers]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 29 16:48:55 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fabulous book of poetry. Not the kind of poetry you're going to read in your high school English Lit class. This is real straight-from-the-gut poetry. But you'll recognize some of the names here - Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and other famous poets. But most of the poets here are real wild an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8406414">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[so far so good. This is a good collection of poets that are kings and queens of the underground press. There is a good selection of slam poetry that is not always presented in anthology form, which is a worthy enterprise in itself. Blessedly, some of the big names of the post beats are missing, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45970132">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Mar 07 10:16:32 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 10 21:43:40 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Now this is a fun little (well actually big) anthology of poetry by bad asses of all sorts.  You are pissed.  Angry even.  This is the book that will add the salt to the open wound.  Poor it on baby because you are going to eat this book like it's the last meal.]]></body>
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    <review id="7397257">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Marvelous anthology of the poetry of some of America's most renegade poets...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 28 10:32:17 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[you're not a poet if it's not on your shelf!!!]]></body>
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    <review id="17176329">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Cristen Bradshaw]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK...though this is one of my favorite books of poetry, I am selective about which poets I've really enjoyed from it.  I do credit this book, however, with introducing me to slam poetry, the likes of which I'd never read or heard onstage before.  At the time, I was in college, and <em>The Outlaw Bible</em> h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17176329">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76189731">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 30 01:55:27 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the concept of the anthology, for these last several decades so much of “establishment poetry” seems indiscriminate. <br/><br/>But this book, excluding maybe a half-dozen poems, was utterly bogus. It featured the same circle-jerk as “the establishment”, only these poems lacked any ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76189731">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39135539">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 02 14:08:06 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[ok, so I didn't read the entire book and now I can't find it. I am going to look at the library. I read some of these poems a couple years ago and continue to think of them on a regular basis. Some phrases have become part of my internal dialogue and still make me laugh. ]]></body>
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    <review id="74691728">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Oct 15 21:42:22 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great collection of some of the greatest unknowns.  Offbeat rhyme, slandering prose, mindless, senseless thoughts that were once jumbled up in someone's brain are transformed into beautiful sadness scrawled across pages.]]></body>
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    <review id="14472482">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Feb 03 16:36:18 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great collection of poetry - much of it rebellious in tone (the great American virtue).  It literally is the &quot;wafer thin mint&quot; because it truly leaves you craving more.  This collection really spans our literary history.  The undergrounds, the Beats, the Punks and even Walt Whitman,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14472482">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44953246">
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 31 09:40:23 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 31 09:42:31 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was given to me by Sam Orgavani for high school graduation.  I read it while I was working at the BW library.  It did me a world of good my freshman year.]]></body>
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    <review id="73671470">
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  <date_added>Tue Oct 06 15:50:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a compendium of all the dirty and gritty poetry that your English teacher doesn't want you to read.  In a good way.]]></body>
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    <review id="45023544">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Feb 01 01:52:35 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book introduced me to James Dean's &quot;Ode to a Tijuana Toilet,&quot; and I will be forever grateful. ]]></body>
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    <review id="31794284">
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    <body><![CDATA[I started reading this book in Mr. Matthews high school ap european history class one day cuz I was a little bored and it had words like &quot;clit&quot; and &quot;fuck&quot; and &quot;cunt&quot; in it. I ended up buying it and loving it for other reasons. It's not the same old &quot;let's whore wor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31794284">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Poets, Punks, P-Funk, Pacisfists, Pipebombers, Paradigm Shifters, Paul Baribeau, Priests, People!]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 19 23:01:35 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is probably the best bible you could ever read. Some amazing poets from some of the classic beat poets to some modern folks to some activist folks and a lot more! Everytime I crack that book open I find a great poem lying within. It also has a few awesome pictures! I suggest everyone go out and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12946329">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34391085">
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  <date_added>Thu Oct 02 15:39:05 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is MASSIVE... I put it on my &quot;reading&quot; list because for some time now I have been fingering my way through it. So far it has a lot of good stuff, and some not so good stuff.<br/><br/>I'll probably have this on my &quot;reading&quot; list for a very long time because obviously it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34391085">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27259662">
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    <name><![CDATA[Talia]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A mixture of beats, meats, slammers, and so-called renegades...which supposedly includes everyone from Janis Joplin and Tupak Shukur to William Carlos Williams and Ferlinghetti.  The editors of this massive anthology said they were trying to bring light to the more obsure, but it is apparent to see ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27259662">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14249055">
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a narcissistic place to start but hell, I'm actually a published poet.  I'm right between Richard Brautigan and Walt Whitman.  Walt Whitman only has one piece and I have 4 which gives you an idea of the perspective here. But if you can only own one book of American poetry this should be it.  An...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14486317">more...</a>]]></body>
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