The beats : a graphic history /
This revelatory and exhilarating and funny book not only tells us of the Beat generation, but of a time when we as individuals felt truly free. It is as fresh and pertinent as the latest scholarly history only far more entertaining--Studs Terkel.
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New York :
Hill and Wang,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- The Beats: Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs. Jack Kerouac / Harvey Pekar, art by Ed Piskor
- Allen Ginsberg / Harvey Pekar, art by Ed Piskor
- William S. Burroughs / Harvey Pekar, art by Ed Piskor
- The Beats: perspectives. The San Francisco Poetry Renaissance / Harvey Pekar, art by Ed Piskor
- Michael McClure / Harvey Pekar, art by Ed Piskor
- Philip Whalen / Harvey Pekar, art by Ed Piskor
- Between Rexroth and Gary Snyder in the Bay Area / Harvey Pekar, art by Ed Piskor
- Robert Duncan / Harvey Pekar, art by Ed Piskor
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti / Harvey Pekar, art by Ed Piskor
- Gregory Corso / Harvey Pekar, art by Ed Piskor
- LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka / Harvey Pekar, art by Ed Piskor
- Charles Olson / Harvey Pekar, art by Ed Piskor
- Robert Creeley / Harvey Pekar, art by Ed Piskor
- City Lights and the Beats in San Francisco / Paul Buhle and Nancy J. Peters, art by Jay Kinney
- Kenneth Patchen / Harvey Pekar and Nick Thorkelson, art by Nick Thorkelson
- Lamantia / Nancy J. Peters and Penelope Rosemont, art by Summer McClinton
- Gary Snyder / Harvey Pekar, art by Peter Kuper
- Diane di Prima / Harvey Pekar and Mary Fleener, art by Mary Fleener
- The janitor / story and art by Jerome Neukirch
- Beatnik Chicks / Joyce Brabner, art by Summer McClinton
- Jay DeFeo: the Rose / Trina Robbins, art by Anne Timmons
- Art Beats / story and art by Gary Dumm
- Jazz and poetry / Harvey Pekar, art by Lance Tooks
- The harassment of d.a. levy / Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle, art by Gary Dumm
- Tuli Kupferberg / Jeffrey Lewis and Tuli Kupferberg, art by Jeffrey Lewis.