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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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