The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters

The Portable Beat Reader

Ann Charters

645 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction classics poetry challenging reflective fast-paced
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Beginning in the late 1940s, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstacy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Ch...

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