Search:

Beat table.

First Previous Next Last
IDAuthorTitlePlacePublisherDateOCLC NumberCall NumberDescriptionReviews
4076 Jones, Jim Use My Name: Jack Kerouac's Forgotten Families Toronto, Ontorio ECW Press 1998 40735081 Trade Paperback, bound in sepia-toned photo-illustrated jacket featuring a photograph of Jack Kerouac's daughter, Jan, in a parody of the 'Kerouac wears khakis' Gap clothing ad campaign. An anecdotal biography of Jan Kerouac, Jack Kerouac's estranged daughter, extending also to Kerouac's three wives and his only nephew. Illustrated with black and white photographs, throughout. 203 pages. From the back cover: "By looking sympathetically yet realistically at the lives of five people who knew Kerouac intimately, Jones creates a new picture of the Beat legacy that foregrounds the 'minor characters' and accurately depicts the heroism of their not-so-ordinary lives." Jim Jones Collection.
4077 Colin Jackson k k k k k k sdfl; """"" ''''' dfjsl ' sdfk
4078 Zinn, Howard The Bomb San Francisco City Lights Books 2010 D 790 .Z57 Trade paper, bound in black & brown illustrated wraps. In a brilliant dissection of some of the central myths of our militarized society, Harold Zinn describes the U.S. militarys first use of napalm in World War II: dropped over Royan a small French town, burning anyone and anything it touched. Zinn was in one of the planes, taking part in what he charges was a horrendous crime. Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010) was an American historian, author, left-wing activist, playwright, intellectual and Prof. of Political Science at Boston University from 1964 to 1988. He wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A Peoples History of the United States. "Part history, part memoir, part sermon, The Bomb is meant to wake up citizens, to rouse them to reject 'the abstractions of duty and obedience' and to refuse to heed the call of war." --Jonah Raskin, The Rag Blog
4079 levy, d.a. Suburban Monastery Death Poem Cleveland Offense Fund 1976 9268374 Paper, with mimeographed text printed on unpaginated green paper, staple-bound in black & yellow cardstock wrappers, illustrated with black & white photographs by Mark Kaufman. Stated: second zero edition, 36 pages. Levys last major poem originally published in 1968, reprinted by the Offense Fund in 1976. d.a. levy (October 29, 1942 ... November 24, 1968), born Darryl Allan Levy, was an American poet, artist, and alternative publisher active during the 1960s, based in Cleveland, Ohio. During 1967 and 1968, Levy published Cleveland's first underground newspaper, the Buddhist Third-Class Junkmail Oracle. He established the Renegade Press (later called Seven Flowers Press) and in addition to his own work, levy printed works by Charles Bukowski, Ed Sanders, and others.
4080 levy, d.a. barking rabbit Cleveland Falling Down Press 1978 4134353 Twelve parchment finished sheets, mimeo printed and staple bound in green printed blue werapper. Cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss. Print by M. Schaefer; one of 200 copies. Published in March 1976. According to publisher Alan Horvath, Levy had thought about changing the name of his publication Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle to Barking Rabbit before he died. Levy committed suicide in 1968.
4081 d.a. levy and friends ukanhavyrfuckincitibak, [a.k.a.] d.a. levy: a tribute to the man, an anthology of his poetry Cleveland Ghost Press 1967 (?) 31242993 Oversized paperback : Published by Ghost Press Cleveland, 1967. Limited to 1000 copies, mimeo printed and bound with heavy duty staples, covered with a strip of black cloth binding tape on the spine. Illustrated cover features b/w photo of Levy. Publishers order form LAID IN. The book is nearly an inch thick. This collection, mimeographed by levys friends (t.l. kryss and rjs) to benefit levys legal battles, it is the best raw document of how levy and his friends published. Includes a lot of levys poems, but with no table of contents or page numbers it is hard to navigate and sometimes it can be hard to tell which poems are levys and which are his friends. This volume was later published by Russell Salamon in 2007.
4217 Snyder, Gary Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers Without End, Plus One San Francisco Four Seasons Foundation 1965 PS 3569 .N88 M621 Paper, staple-bound in dull mustard colored printed wrappers, 42 pages, second printing. This copy from Professor Kenneth Brewer's personal collection with his signature on the flyleaf. The long poem, Mountains and Rivers without End, titled after a Chinese sideways scroll painting, spanned much of Snyder's career and the completed work was finally published in 1996 to glowing praise from critics. The work is epic, embracing Asian artistic traditions, Native American storytelling, and Zen Buddhist philosophy in a celebration of all the Earth's distinct elements -- sky, rock, water -- while exploring the human connection to nature with a spare and simple elegance.
4083 Hall, M. & Hinkamp, D. A Song for Ken Brewer Logan, Utah USU English Dept. 2006 PS 3552 .R419 Z766 DVD: In photo-illustrated case featuring a photo of Prof. Brewer with his Schnauzer.Running time: 21.19 minutes. Produced September 2005 through February 2006, it documents Ken Brewers very public fight with cancer. He reads two of his last poems and fellow writers, friends, and family honor Brewers contributions through their anecdotes about him. After a nine-month battle with pancreatic cancer, Brewer passed away on March 15, 2006 at the age of 64. He was named Utahs second poet laureate in 2003. He taught poetry, writing, and literature at Utah State University for nearly 32 years. The DVD tribute was produced by Marina Hall and Dennis Hinkamp with original music by Bob and Joe Sorenson. The DVD was offered as a gift to anyone donating $20.00 or more to the Kenneth W. Brewer Creative Writing Award.
4084 Takacs, Nancy Juniper Boise, Idaho Limberlost Press 2010 Paper, letterpress printed on ivory-colored paper; hand-sewn in Rising Stonehenge wrappers with illustrated cover by Ian Minich. Blue Spruce colored handmade endpapers. From the publisher: This collection of poems is infused with sage and juniper, images of the Great Basin, a horizon edged by mountains, where every word is measured and matters. Here is a poet whose lines grip the page like desert plants, windblown and enduring, whose quiet stories of family and wildlife and gardens are as if from a friend who logs the arrival of birds and shares coffee in a kitchen on a winter afternoon. A former wilderness studies instructor and creative writing professor at the College of Eastern Utah, Nancy Takacs lives in Wellington, Utah.
4085 Felver, Christopher Ferlinghetti: a Christopher Felver Film unknown FerlinghettiFilm.com 2009 PS 3511.E557 Z74 DVD: Feature Documentary Running Time: 82 minutes Premiere: San Francisco Intn'l Film Festival - April 28, 2009. Photographer and film-maker Christopher Felver has kept up a 30 year friendship with 90-year-old poet and founder of City Lights Books, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Felvers film, Ferlinghetti, is the product of that friendship. Combining footage that Felver has collected over the years with some archival gems, Felver traces Ferlinghettis life from his days as a Navy serviceman in World War II, through the landmark First Amendment trial sparked by his publishing of Allen Ginsbergs Howl. Mr. Ferlinghetti, a living presence in poetry, reads many of his significant poems, discusses his political and social activism, and the film gives insight into the poets public and private life. Includes interviews and commentary from Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman, Dave Eggers, Billy Collins, Michael McClure and others.
4086 Epstein, Robert P. HOWL Oscilloscope Laboratories 2010 PS3513 .I74 H6 2010 Video Recording: DVD, color. Allen Ginsberg recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to the most timeless, electrifying, and controversial work of his career. Pushing the limits and challenging the mainstream, the passionate and provocative Howl and its publisher find themselves on trial for obscenity, with prosecutor Ralph McIntosh setting out to have the book banned, while defense attorney Jake Ehrlich argues for freedom of speech and creative expression. Cast: James Franco, Jon Hamm, Mary Louise Parker, Alessandro Nivola, Bob Balaban, David Strathairn, Jeff Daniels, Treat Williams. Howl ... takes a celebrated piece of writing and makes it come alive... New York Times
4087 Dylan, Bob Renaldo & Clara USA via Hard to Find Films 1978 M 1630.18 .D95 R45 Synopsis via IMDb Internet Database. This legendary movie epic is a mass amalgamation of three separate film-types that is, contrary to popular opinion, coherent and a unified whole. Bob Dylan is shown in concert, often masked, during the Rolling Thunder Revue. The film also features documentary footage, including Ruben "Hurricane" Carter's struggle against the forces that have imprisoned him. The third element is fictional "role-playing" footage with Bob Dylan in the guise of guitar-strumming Renaldo and his wife Sara as his companion Clara. Ronnie Hawkins takes on the role of Bob Dylan in these sequences. The film includes footage of a visit to the grave of Jack Kerouac, an Allen Ginsberg poetry reading and various friends and acquaintances, namely David Blue (playing pinball by a swimming pool), discussing experiences on the road
4088 Wagner, D. R. The day is a prayer they can't understand! Selected Lettres Cleveland Seven Flowers Press 1967 2841056 Mimeo printed, single sheets, staple-bound in unique hand-collaged cover by D.A. Levy, Cleveland's renegade poet-publisher (and the recepient of these letters). Flowers (on title page) by Mara. First edition, limited to 150 copies. Introduction by T.L. Kryss.
4090 Norse, Harold Harold Norse of course San Francisco Unrequited Records 2010 PS 3527 .O56 H37 Beat Media CD. BEAT MEDIA: Recording of a Norse reading originally released on cassette tape in 1984 by Ins & Outs Press. Harold Norse, born 6 July 1916; died 8 June 2009, was often associated with the Beats, and was mentor or peer to many of the greatest talents in 20th century American literature, including Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski. In the early 1960s Norse lived in Paris with William Burroughs, Ginsberg and Gregory Corso in the hotel in the Latin Quarter known as the Beat Hotel. Norse collaborated with Brion Gysin on the cut-up technique and was briefly an acclaimed painter of ink drawings soaked in the hotel bidet, known as Cosmographs. The author of 12 books of poetry, Norse was nominated for the US National Book award in 1974, but never achieved the success of his more celebrated peers.
4091 Lonidier, Fred A Fragmentary Capsule History of the Ironworkers & Other Unions at NASSCO (Cover title: Blueprin San Francisco Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, 1992 N 6512.5 .I56 L66 Oblong, photo-illustrated wraps with blue lettering; borders. 30 p., Illus. with black & white photos. A catalog for the exhibition For Labor, About Labor, By Labor: Our Struggles in the U.S. from the 70's to the 90's, shown June4-July 3, 1992 at the Walter/McBean Gallery of the San Francisco Art Museum. The catalog is a fragmentary capsule history of the Ironworkers and other unions at NASSCO (National Shipbuilding and Steel Company, San Diego) and includes excerpts from a photo-text installation Blueprint for a Strike.
4093 Lonidier, Lynn The Rhyme of the Ag-ed Mariness: The Last Poems of Lynn Lonidier Barrytown, New York Station Hill 2001 PS 3562 .O537 R49 Trade paperback bound in photo-illustrated wrappers, turquoise and yellow print. Cover features b/w photograph of author. This collection gathers all the poems written by Lynn Lonidier (1937-1993) between her last book and her death. The poems are streetwise, based in speech rhythms, often combining San Francisco Mission-district Spanish with a jazzy, American-English. A lesbian and feminist, Lonidier was dedicated to the underprivileged. Her work brims with anger and irony, energy and humor, and yet is suffused with loving tenderness.
4094 Lonidier, Lynn Clitoris Lost: a woman's version of the creation myth Boyes Hot Spring, Calif. Manroot Press 1989 19758519 Oversize paperback, 60p., printed on rainbow-spectrum paper stocks. Bound in full color wraps featuring a computer generated (mid 1980s technology) cover image by Robert Berner. The cover depicts a public baths scene in ancient Minos with two women in converstation. Berner has ad space on p.85 for work on demand. This leaf also bears computer distortions of Lonidier and a photographic portrait her holding her two pet garter snakes. A lesbian poet who published in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, Ron Silliman called Lonidier the first true avant-garde lesbian poet since Gertrude Stein. One of 1,100 copies.
4095 Gysin, Brion Brion Gysin : the October Gallery, March 12-April 4, 1981 London October Gallery 1981 ND 237 .G97 O38 Paper exhibition catalogue, staple bound in black & white photo-illustrated wraps featuring Gysin and Burroughs on the cover. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs; includes 8 copies of the price list, LAID IN. Also, SIGNED & INSCRIBED on verso by Brion Gysin; includes a short essay, Ports of Entry, by W.S. Burroughs. A Gift of George Wanlass. Gysin (1916-1986) studied Japanese and Arabic calligraphy evolving his own style of word/image glyphs... the juncture of word and image. A radical cultural visionary, visual artist, writer and performer, Gysin was a lifelong friend of William S. Burroughs and it was Gysin that introduced Burroughs to the techniques of "cut-ups" and "permutation". Together, they experimented in sound and image, using collage, tape recorder, light painting, writing and film. Their work has had a pervasive influence in the arts and on underground and popular culture.
4096 Bartlett, Jennifer Cleopatra I-IV New York Adventures in Poetry 1971 89 unbound leaves in PS 3552 .A785 C64 89 unbound leaves in a manila envelope. Title & author rubber-stamped in the upper left Published in an edition of 300 copies, 26 of which are numbered A through Z and signed by the author--Leaf [89].
4098 Naropa University Naropa Magazine Boulder, CO Naropa University 2010 PS 1 .N37 2010, FALL Naropa University magazine keeps friends and alumni informed of university news, programs, and notes on faculty, staff, and other information about the University's mission.
4099 Bukowski, Charles The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship New York HarperCollins, First Ecco Edition 1998 Trade paperback in illustrated wrappers printed in red, blue and brown; includes twelve illustrations by Robert Crumb. A collection of extracts from Bukowski's journals spanning 1991 to 1993, first published in posthumously in 1997. The diary entries record the last few years of Bukowski's life, in which he talks about drinking, gambling, aging, fame, and his mundane day-to-day activities.
4100 Ginsberg, Allen Illuminated Poems New York Four Walls Eight Windows 1996 Paper, trade edition, bound in full color, illustrated wrappers. The book is a collaboration between two visionaries of different generations. Allen Ginsberg is the quintessential Beat and America's best known poet. Artist Eric Drooker, in the tradition of William Blake, has illustrated Ginsberg's poems with provocative images that reflect life at the turn of the Millennium.
4104 Saroyan, Aram Day & Night: Bolinas Poems Santa Rosa, Calif. Black Sparrow Press 1998 PS 3569 .A72 D39 First edition, 226 pp. bound in decorated paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label, in acetate dust jacket. Numbered 82 of 100 copies and SIGNED by the author on the colophon. This volume collects Aram Saroyan's poems written in the artist colony of Bolinas, California which, in the late 60s and 70s, was home to a generation of Beat Poets, many who were active in the San Francisco scene. This group, sometimes called the Bolinas Group, gave the village its somewhat quirky, Bohemian reputation, which still lingers today. Known for his very short poems, DAY AND NIGHT includes Saroyan's longer work.
4107 Kelly, Carol & James Fitzg Black Maria Photo: Three Poems El Paso, Texas One Eye Press 1971 PS 3556 .I834 B53 Chapbook, staple bound in black & white photo-illustrated jacket. Cover designed by Keith Fitzgerald. One Eye Press #5. Designed and edited by Steve Peters. Fitzgerald's work appeared in several literary magazines. Carol Kelly was a student at the University of Texas at El Paso at the time of publication. One Eye Press was noted for being an early publisher of Chicano poetry (also in 1971).
4108 unknown The Brown Rice Gazette London: Brown Rice Co. Lithosphere Print Co-op 19?? PR 1150 .B76 1900 Z Large format, staple bound in black & white illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with black & white drawings & photographs throughout. Contains short stories, poems by various authors. In a plea for contributions the editor (known only as Mark c/o 'The Hutch') offers this magazine as a means of communication and promotion, not just concerned with literature but all aspects of art. The publishing organization is "The Brown Rice Co."