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Pete Brown: The Poet Who Rocks by Marc Shapiro
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Pete Brown is a lot of things. A major songwriting talent who was responsible for Cream's classic musical moments, important collaborations with Jack Bruce and such notable experiments in jazz and... -
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities by John King 9781324020325
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.82Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco's portal to the world-the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films... -
Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson 9780745340937
Booksplease Price: £85.65San Francisco is an iconic and symbolic city. But only when you look beyond the picture-postcards of the Golden Gate Bridge and the quaint cable cars do you realise that the city's most interesting... -
Beat Poets by Carmela Ciuraru
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century counter-cultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic... -
French Love Poems by New Directions 9780811225595
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Filled with devotion and lust, sensuality and eroticism, fevers and overtures, these poems showcase some of the most passionate verses in the French language. From the classic sixteenth-century love... -
Poems of Paris by Emily Fragos 9781841598123
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as Paris. Poems of Paris spans the centuries from the Renaissance to the present, and includes a pantheon of French (and... -
The American Spring: What We Talk About When We Talk About Revolution by Amelia Stein 9781616087470
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.31"I don't think there'll ever be a day when there's nothing to dissent about."-Lawrence Ferlinghetti)"The game is being run on people but they don't know how the game is being run."-Arthur Blaustein"I... -
The Beat Generation in San Francisco: A Literary Tour by Bill Morgan 9780872864177
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78A blow-by-blow unearthing of the places where the Beat writers first came to full bloom: the flat where Ginsberg wrote "Howl;" Gary Snyder's zen cottage in Berkeley; the ghostly railroad yards where... -
Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition by Frank O'Hara
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Exquisite hardcover gift edition of the groundbreaking poetry collection by the leader of the "New York School" of poetry, Frank O'Hara. Published on the 50th anniversary of Lunch Poems.Lunch Poems,... -
Free Stallion: Poems by Amber Tamblyn 9781442430877
Booksplease Price: £5.29Although Amber Tamblyn is best known as the star of the smash hit Joan of Arcadia, she is a serious poet, mentored by Jack Hirshman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and other San Francisco Beat poets. She has... -
Walking the London Scene: Five Walks in the Footsteps of the Beat Generation Including Links to the Beatles by Sydney, R Davies 9781845300302
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62The 'Beat Generation' were a well travelled crew. Best known for crisscrossing the US in search of adventures, 'kicks', God and each other, they also ventured out to far flung corners of the globe... -
Christmas Poems by Albert M. Hayes 9780811218085
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44Christmas Poems is a pleasing and diverse selection of classic holiday poems that goes all the way back to an eclogue of Virgil, moves along to a wide range of authors such as Chaucer, Herbert,... -
An Accidential Autobiography Gregory Corso 9780811215350
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30Fabulous letters from the vagabond Beat poet to his friendsamong them Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. For all his charm and intelligence poet Gregory Corso lived a vagabond life. He never... -
Inferno: A New Verse Translation by Dante Alighieri 9780393323870
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £21.38Unlike every known translator before him, Michael Palma re-creates Dante's masterpiece in all its dimensions, without emphasizing some aspects over others, rendering Inferno into contemporary... -
Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press by Jeff Weddle 9781496830821
Booksplease Price: £20.70Winner of the 2007 Welty Prize In 1960, Jon Edgar and Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb founded Loujon Press on Royal Street in New Orleans's French Quarter. The small publishing house quickly became a giant... -
Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima 9780995716261
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary Letters is a modern classic, as relevant... -
Groundwork: Before the War/In the Dark by Robert J. Bertholf 9780811216531
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.45I am speaking now of the Dream in which America sleeps, the New World, moaning, floundering, in three hundred years of invasions, our own history out of Europe and enslaved Africa.Robert Duncan, from... -
Dog Poems by Various
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Since prehistory, dogs have served as man's best friend, giving us loyalty, assistance and boundless inspiration. Dogs offer comfort and amusement to their owners; they provide solace when we're... -
Art Carpets: Cleto Munari and Friends by Marco Fazzini
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £25.23The first book to exclusively present Cleto Munari's latest creations in the field of the applied arts: a unique collection of art carpets. Cleto Munari was born in Gorizia and he lives and works in... -
The Portrait Gallery Called Existence by Neeli Cherkovski 9780872869370
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In his final book, poet Neeli Cherkovski paints a portrait of his life through luminous details of encounters with his illustrious comrades."A prolific poet and denizen of beatnik cafes who... -
These Spaceships Weren't Built For Us: Poems by Alan Chazaro 9781882688654
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50"Chazaro transforms the ranfla, the hooptie, and the G-ride into a spaceship, a time machine. He points our gaze to the sky and we long to take flight while simultaneously holding onto our roots and... -
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Cat Poems by Elizabeth Bishop 9781788161732 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97You Know How a Cat will bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning I bring you a poem that I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute to your... -
Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression by Bill Morgan 9780872864795
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Howl and Other Poems, with nearly one million copies in print, City Lights presents the story of editing, publishing, and defending Allen Ginsberg's landmark poem... -
Zen and the Beat Way: (Zen Teachings of Alan Watts) Alan Watts 9784805317068
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.49"Everything disappears into nothing at all, but out of that same nothing at all come all the new things, forever and ever." —Alan WattsWhen Jack Kerouac wrote his novel Dharma Bums, his views on Zen... -
I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg by Bill Morgan 9780143112495
Booksplease Price: £19.95In the first biography of Ginsberg since his death in 1997 and the only one to cover the entire span of his life, Ginsberg's archivist Bill Morgan draws on his deep knowledge of Ginsberg's largely... -
Cat Poems by Elizabeth Bishop
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49You Know How a Cat will bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning I bring you a poem that I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute to your... -
A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion by Louis J. Parascandola 9780231165730
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.02Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, Jose Marti, Maxim Gorky, Federico Garcia Lorca, Isaac... -
Beats at Naropa by Anne Waldman 9781566892278
Booksplease Price: £14.07“At Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, there has long been an illuminating, dynamic, ongoing exchange of ideas about the history and legacy of the Beat Generation—an... -
Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons, and Impact by William T. Lawlor 9781851094004
Booksplease Price: £82.27The coverage of this book ranges from Jack Kerouac's tales of freedom-seeking Bohemian youth to the frenetic paintings of Jackson Pollock, including 60 years of the Beat Generation and the artists of... -
Letters That Breathe Fire: El Corno Emplumado / the Plumed Horn Margaret Randall 9781613322833
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Arguably one of the most important independent literary magazines of the 1960s, El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn made new work from the South available in the North and vice versa. Its scope... -
San Francisco: A Map of Perceptions by Andrea Ponsi 9780813936352
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02San Francisco is a city designed for artists and wanderers. From North Beach, to Chinatown, to the cold, rough surf of Ocean Beach, to Marin, both visitors and lifelong residents have endless... -
Letters That Breathe Fire: El Corno Emplumado / the Plumed Horn Margaret Randall 9781613322840
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £57.32Arguably one of the most important independent literary magazines of the 1960s, El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn made new work from the South available in the North and vice versa. Its scope... -
On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist by John Burnside 9780691166872
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller-and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape "the air-conditioned nightmare" of the modern worldThe American writer Henry Miller's... -
The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia by Philip Lamantia 9780520269729
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.65"The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia" represents the lifework of the most visionary poet of the American postwar generation. Philip Lamantia (1927-2005) played a major role in shaping the poetics... -
Selected Poems of Philip Lamantia, 1943-1966: Pocket Poets No. 20 Philip Lamantia 9780872869349
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64The original American surrealist returns in a new edition of the 1967 classic."I am eager to do a book of yours," Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote to Philip Lamantia in Nerja, Spain in 1966. "What about... -
Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 2: 1957-1969 by Jack Kerouac 9780140296150
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £23.88The first volume of Jack Kerouac's selected letters, published in 1995, was hailed as an important and revealing addition to Kerouac scholarship. This second and final volume, comprising letters... -
The Jazz Poetry Anthology by Sascha Feinstein
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46" . . . in a class by itself . . . sensitive, moving, and powerful jazz imagery . . . the perfect companion to listening to good jazz." -Jazziz Magazine"In the course of the history of jazz, there... -
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities John King 9781324105237
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.12Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco's portal to the world-the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films... -
The Poetry Lesson by Andrei Codrescu 9780691178059
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.37"Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark. You take healthy young Americans used to sunshine (aided sometimes by Xanax and... -
Buddhism: The Religion of No-Religion by Alan Watts 9780804856089
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.49"Although Alan Watts' famous voice and happy laughter are missing now, his penetrating vision of Buddhism remains, and his lectures become brilliant prose in book form." -Publishers WeeklyBuddhism:...