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Gasoline by Gregory Corso 9781942531135
RRP: €14.95Booksplease Price: €11.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942531135Author Gregory CorsoFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint -
The Happy Birthday of Death Gregory Corso 9780811200271
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.16It 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: €13.69Booksplease Price: €12.74Long 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... -
Riding Pegasus Bareback: Notes on Gregory Corso by Gregory Stephenson 9788797437506
RRP: €8.93Booksplease Price: €7.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788797437506Author Gregory StephensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint -
Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio by James Young
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02_______________ '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... -
This Drawn & Quartered Moon by klipschutz 9781927380451
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.25This 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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66Pete 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.29Kaufman 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... -
Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio by James Young 9780747544111
Booksplease Price: €19.29The 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 Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl’ Generation by Deborah Geis 9781472567888
Booksplease Price: €55.44Readers 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... -
Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica by Kevin Courrier
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.16In 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... -
Beat Poets by Carmela Ciuraru
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.50This 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... -
Robert Frank: Pull My Daisy by 9783865216731
RRP: €11.90Booksplease Price: €8.81Pull 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.98'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 Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34Beginning 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... -
Awakening the Eye: Robert Frank's American Cinema by George Kouvaros
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71Until 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 Beats: A Very Short Introduction by David Sterritt 9780199796779
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Beat Generation writers revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and... -
The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats David Stephen Calonne (Eastern Michigan University) 9781108416450
RRP: €114.24Booksplease Price: €108.84The 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... -
Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac Barry Gifford 9780857867643
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'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,... -
Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman by Bob Kaufman 9780872867697
Booksplease Price: €19.362020 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER"The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman is the most comprehensive selection of his verse to date, a volume that contains a lot of previously uncollected work. ... this book... -
I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke 9781509896103
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.49This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. This book will be a joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole new generation.John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon:... -
I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. A joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole new generation.'One of Britain's outstanding poets' - Sir Paul...