Staples: Major Books of the Movement
Big
Sur by Jack Kerouac, Adam Saroyan. Highly recommended.
Book
of Dreams by Jack Kerouac. An excellent book that doesn't explain how
but prepares you to figure it out for your self.
Collected
Poems 1947-1980 by Allen Ginsberg
Composed
on the Tongue by Allen Ginsberg, Donald Merriam Allen. A book of literary conversations from 67-77.
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson. Jack Kerouac sees the angel that exists in everything. This book is beautiful. It is sort of about everyone and about no one.
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. Fictionalized episodes of Jack in California.
Empty
Mirror Early Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Fall
of America : Poems of These States, 1965-1971 by Allen Ginsberg
Howl,
and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, William Carlos Williams. Another
staple book.
Junky
by William S. Burroughs
Kaddish
and Other Poems, 1958-1960 by Allen Ginsberg. This book is one of the
staples of the Beat Movement.
Mind
Breaths : Poems, 1972-1977 by Allen Ginsberg
Naked
Lunch by William S. Burroughs
On
the Road by Jack Kerouac
Planet
News, 1961-1967 by Allen Ginsberg
Plutonian
Ode; Poems, 1977-1980 by Allen Ginsberg
Queer
by William S. Burroughs
Reality
Sandwiches, 1953-1960 by Allen Ginsberg. Quirky but true Ginsberg.
Selected
Poems 1947-1995 by Allen Ginsberg
Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac. A classic depicting the hipsters Jack encountered.
The First Third and Other Writings by Neal Cassady
The Visions of the Great Rememberer by Allen Ginsberg
Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
White Shroud : Poems 1980-1985 by Allen Ginsberg. Some of Allen's later work, my sister gave me this book and I take it with me wherever I go. It somehow always has the answers.
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