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Sarpedon: A Play by Gregory Corso by Gregory Corso 9780692738313
Booksplease Price: £4.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692738313Author Gregory CorsoFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Tough Poets PressPublisher Tough... -
Gasoline by Gregory Corso
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series. "Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a... -
Gasoline by Gregory Corso 9781942531135
RRP: £12.56Booksplease Price: £9.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942531135Author Gregory CorsoFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint DeVault-Graves AgencyPublisher... -
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... -
Collected Plays by Gregory Corso 9780578777016
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578777016Author Gregory CorsoFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Tough Poets PressPublisher... -
The Happy Birthday of Death Gregory Corso 9780811200271
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.39It is true that he has been one of the inner circle of the 'Beats' from the first, but many admirers of his poetry feel that it belongs quite as much to other and older traditions in world literature... -
Long Live Man by Gregory Corso 9780811200257
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £10.71Long live Man! sings the poet Gregory Corso-despite atom bombs and computers, cold wars that get hot and togetherness that isn't, too many cars and too little love...and in these poems he celebrates... -
Herald Of The Autochthonic Spirit by Gregory Corso 9780811208086
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £10.59Gregory Corso is still kicking "the ivory applecart of tyrannical values," heralding the wild and keenly experienced life. Since the 1950s, when with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others, Corso... -
Riding Pegasus Bareback: Notes on Gregory Corso by Gregory Stephenson 9788797437506
RRP: £7.50Booksplease Price: £5.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788797437506Author Gregory StephensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Felix Culpa PressPublisher... -
The Whole Shot: Collected Interviews with Gregory Corso by Rick Schober 9780692427132
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692427132Author Rick SchoberFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Tough Poets PressPublisher Tough... -
The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963 by Barry Miles 9780802138170
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802138170Author Barry MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio by James Young
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42_______________ 'A coolly literary masterpiece' - Greil Marcus, Esquire 'Sad, funny, brilliant' - The Daily Telegraph 'In classic fish-out-of-water fashion Young writes with wry amusement... -
The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene by Aidan Wasley 9780691136790
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes,... -
The Poetry Lesson by Andrei Codrescu 9780691178059
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.05"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... -
Poems of My Life by Laura Corso 9780359870967
RRP: £10.47Booksplease Price: £9.85A book of poetry written by a young woman who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 18 and then with Multiple Sclerosis at 30. This compilation of her poetry reflects both the battles she fought... -
This Drawn & Quartered Moon by klipschutz 9781927380451
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45This Drawn & Quartered Moon takes pre-millenial San Francisco as its epicenter, and from there ranges out in time and space. Characters abound. The reader will meet a plagiarist, a Vietnam vet named... -
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... -
Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness by Bob Kaufman 9780811200769
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Kaufman promotes a spontaneous, prophetic verse, mixing street talk and jazz with vision. Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness contains odes to Charles Mingus, Hart Crane, Ray Charles, and Albert Camus... -
Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl’ Generation by Deborah Geis 9781472567888
Booksplease Price: £46.59Readers and acolytes of the vital early 1950s-mid 1960s writers known as the Beat Generation tend to be familiar with the prose and poetry by the seminal authors of this period: Jack Kerouac, Gregory... -
Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio by James Young 9780747544111
Booksplease Price: £16.21The story of Nico, former model, film actress, singer with the Velvet Underground and darling of Andy Warhol's factory.;In 1982 Nico was living in Manchester, alone and interested only in feeding her... -
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... -
Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica by Kevin Courrier
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.54In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's "Trout Mask Replica", a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms... -
Conversations with Allen Ginsberg by David Stephen Calonne 9781496823502
Booksplease Price: £88.60Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was one of the most famous American poets of the twentieth century. Yet, his career is distinguished by not only his strong contributions to literature but also social... -
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... -
Robert Frank: Pull My Daisy by 9783865216731
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40Pull My Daisy is a 1959 short film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a stage play he never... -
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'One of the most true, comic and grizzly journeys in American literature' Time Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the... -
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... -
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... -
Beats at Naropa by Anne Waldman 9781566892278
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.14“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... -
Conversations with Allen Ginsberg by David Stephen Calonne 9781496823519
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.25Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was one of the most famous American poets of the twentieth century. Yet, his career is distinguished by not only his strong contributions to literature but also social... -
Awakening the Eye: Robert Frank's American Cinema by George Kouvaros
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Until now, celebrated photographer Robert Frank's daring and unconventional work as a filmmaker has not been awarded the critical notice it deserves. In this timely volume, George Kouvaros surveys... -
The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the... -
Ferlinghetti: A Life by Neeli Cherkovski 9781574232592
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88"No one mulling this gentle record will fail to be moved."-San Francisco Chronicle Poet, publisher, bookseller, activist-this is the story of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the bookshop he made a landmark... -
COVID Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco Karen Finley 9780872869356
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26COVID Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco meditates on the extraordinary time of loss, isolation, and bizarre rituals of the Covid era and its aftermath."Yep, she's still got it. . . . Like... -
The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats David Stephen Calonne (Eastern Michigan University) 9781108416450
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £91.46The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats is the first comprehensive study to explore the role of esoteric, occult, alchemical, shamanistic, mystical and magical traditions in the work of eleven major... -
Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl' Generation by Deborah R. Geis 9781472567871
Booksplease Price: £29.88Readers and acolytes of the vital early 1950s-mid 1960s writers known as the Beat Generation tend to be familiar with the prose and poetry by the seminal authors of this period: Jack Kerouac, Gregory... -
Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac David Amram 9781594515446
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14David Amram has been described as "the Renaissance man of American Music." His musical career has spanned participating with Jack Kerouac in the original jazz-poetry reading in 1957 in Greenwich... -
Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac Barry Gifford 9780857867643
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Jack Kerouac died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven . . . Most of his friends survived him. Our idea was to seek them out and talk with them about Jack's life and their own lives. The final result,... -
Peter Dickinson: Words and Music Peter Dickinson 9781783271061
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £79.79Articles, tributes and reminiscences of composer, pianist and author Peter Dickinson are here brought together for the first time. Peter Dickinson made an enduring contribution to British musical... -
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology: 60th Anniversary Edition by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780872866799
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38"Printer's ink is the greater explosive." Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary...