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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pekar, Harvey
Corporate Author:	City Lights Books
Other Authors:	Piskor, Ed, Buhle, Paul, 1944-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Hill and Wang, 2009.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Kerouac, Jack, > 1922-1969. Cassady, Neal. Cassady, Carolyn. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Ginsberg, Allen, > 1926-1997. McClure, Michael. Di Prima, Diane. Burroughs, William S., > 1914-1997. Snyder, Gary, > 1930- Rexroth, Kenneth, > 1905-1982. Beats (Persons) > Comic books, strips, etc. Beats (Persons) > Sources. Beats (Persons) > Biography. Beats (Persons) > Poetry. Authors, American > 20th century > Interviews. Poets, American > 20th century > California > San Francisco. Poets > California > San Francisco. Poets > New York (State) > New York. Beats (Persons) > California > San Francisco > Biography. Beats (Persons) > New York (State) > New York > Biography. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Zen Buddhism > Influence.

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.