ISBN 0-7453-0660-8 (UK hbk), 0-7453-0661-6 (UK pbk)

Introduction A.Robert Lee;

"The Names: Allen Ginsberg's Writings" John Muckle,

"'I'm only a jolly storyteller': Jack Kerouac's On The Road and Visions of Cody " R.J.Ellis

"Journeys in the Mindfield: Gregory Corso Reconsidered" Jim Philip,

"An Anarchist Among the Floorwalkers: The Poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti" Alistair Wisker,

"William Burroughs and Language" David Ingram,

"The Prisoner of Self: The Work of John Clellon Holmes" Cynthia S.Hamilton,

"'Why do we always say angel?': Herbert Huncke and Neal Cassady" Clive Bush,

"Black Beats: The Signifying Poetry of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Ted Jones and Bob Kaufman" A.Robert Lee,

"Jack Micheline, Ray Bremser and the Bohemian Tradition"
(apparently this essay didn't reach the publishing stage),

"The Archaeology of Gender in the Beat Movement" Helen McNeil,

"Women Writers of the Beat Generation" Amy L.Friedman;

Notes on Contributors

Index

"Focusing on some of the most popular writers of the last 40 years, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S.Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, this new collection also examines the work of John Clellon Holmes and Herbert Huncke as well as offering a first ever consideration of black beat writers like LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka), Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman. The first introduction to Beat writers to explore the role of women and gender, through memoirists such as Carolyn Cassady and Bonnie Bremser, as well as the Beats as political activists, this study examines the key influences on the movement, such as Indian and Buddhist philosophy, the sixties' counter-culture, the poetry of Emerson and Whitman and European trends and the Modernist tradition." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1996]

"At last, an intelligent and peerless compendium of critical essays on the Beat Literary Movement, tackling prickly issues of language, gender, race, feminism, anarchy, subjectivity. This is a much needed energetic guide and recondite reading of these controversial writers and cultural icons. I recommend The Beat Generation Writers to serious scholars, students and fans of the historic Beat canon". --Anne Waldman [Director, The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Colorado]

"An academic analysis of the Beat scene, with special coverage of the women and AfroAmerican contributors". --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , March 1996).

Recommended.

• The Beat Generation by Bruce Cook
  (1971, non-fiction)

• The Beats edited by Seymour Krim
  (1960, anthology)

• The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
  (1959, novel)

• The Beat Scene edited by Elias Wilentz
  (1960, anthology...Corinth Books, New York, US)

Literary Kicks
(website maintained by Levi Asher...
"very thorough coverage of the beat scene... this is a truly excellent website" --Henry W.Targowski.)

Shadow Changes Into Bone -- Mongo's Allen Ginsberg Page
("My goal is to be the clearinghouse for all information on Allen Ginsberg existing on the Web. I think I've gone a long way toward that goal, with several hundred links, pointing to poems, photos, interviews, articles, commentary, humor and other assorted Ginsbergia." --Mongo BearWolf.
"A truly major resource on Ginsberg... very highly recommended." --Henry W.Targowski)

Unofficial William Burroughs Homepage
(worth a look-see)

The William S.Burroughs Files
(Malcolm Humes' excellent links to all things Burroughs at his InterNetWebZone)

City Lights Bookshop
(Literary home of the Beat Generation)

Internet Bookstore
(Pluto Press listed their complete catalogue here, but now have their own website)

To reach Pluto Press:

e-mail:
pluto@plutobks.demon.co.uk