Beats

The Beats were 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
The Dharma Bums
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Howl and Other Poems
Big Sur
Junky
The Subterraneans
Desolation Angels
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
A Coney Island of the Mind
Queer
Lonesome Traveler
Visions of Cody
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg
Tristessa
On the Road by Jack KerouacLooking for Kerouac by Mercedes Webb-Pullman
Who loves Kerouac ?
2 books — 2 voters
Funk Is Its Own Reward by Lloyd BradleyFunk Guitar - The Essential Guide | Private Lessons Series Bo... by Ross BoltonThe Breakbeat Bible by Mike Adamo | Drum Sheet Music Songbook... by Mike  AdamoThe Funkmasters -- The Great James Brown Rhythm Sections 1960... by Chuck Silverman
how to groove
4 books — 3 voters

Minor Characters by Joyce JohnsonRecollections of My Life as a Woman by Diane di PrimaOff the Road by Carolyn CassadyHow I Became Hettie Jones by Hettie JonesMemoirs of a Beatnik by Diane di Prima
Women Beats
18 books — 8 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger1984 by George OrwellThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsTropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
So You Want To Be a Teenage Dissident
47 books — 26 voters

Woody Notes, and Heat Sneaking up Fast by Danny WinterHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergMeditations in an Emergency by Frank O'HaraFaithful and Virtuous Night by Louise GlückPoetry in a time of Pestilence by Alex Morritt
Best Late Night Poetry
21 books — 8 voters
Untapped Melody by Emma BrayDirty Rocker by Cassie MintFinding Her Tempo by Jessa JoyCarnal Licks by Pinky CockburnSame Old Song by Matilda Martel
Rock My World Series
13 books — 4 voters

I am all men and so I am Fully implicated in all men’s crimes.
Rick Klaus Theis, Lorca's Grave

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

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