| Author: Alan (EDT) Kaufman | Editor: Alan Kaufman |

Product Summary
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN-10: 1560252278
ISBN-13: 9781560252276
Buy.com Sku: 30465421
Publish Date: 11/1/1999
Pages:
685
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| Serving as a primer for generational revolt and poetic expression, this collection brings readers the words, visions, and extravagant lives of bohemians, beatniks, hippies, punks, and slackers. 50 photos & illustrations. Readings. |
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From the Publisher:
Serving as a primer for generational revolt and poetic expression, this collection brings readers the words, visions, and extravagant lives of bohemians, beatniks, hippies, punks, and slackers. 50 photos & illustrations. Readings. From the Beat poetry of the '50s to the spoken word of today, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry brings readers the words, visions, and extravagant lives of bohemians, beatniks, hippies, punks, and slackers. Like Donald Allen's epochal New American Poetry, The Outlaw Bible will serve as a primer for generational revolt and poetic expression, and is an enduring document of the visionary tradition of authenticity and nonconformity in literature. This exuberant manifesto includes lives of the poets, on-the-scene testimony, seminal underground articles never before collected, photographs of clubs and cafes, interviews, and, above all, the poems. |
Annotation:
Rounding up the poets least likely to show up on the banks of mainstream verse, this anthology makes the case that America's most exciting and freethinking poetry is being written outside of the confines of the academy and the genteel bookstore. Some of the poets here are well-known fugitives from conformity, like Diane DiPrima, Michael McClure, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, but others are more elusive, like Marc Smith and Jimmy Santiago Baca. Other poets come from other realms altogether: Jackson Pollock, Lenny Bruce, and Che Guevara all appear here.
Rounding up the poets least likely to show up on the banks of mainstream verse, this anthology makes the case that America's most exciting and freethinking poetry is being written outside of the confines of the academy and the genteel bookstore. Some of the poets here are well-known fugitives from conformity, like Diane DiPrima, Michael McClure, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, but others are more elusive, like Marc Smith and Jimmy Santiago Baca. Other poets come from other realms altogether: Jackson Pollock, Lenny Bruce, and Che Guevara all appear here.

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