Author: Allen Wight, NCLBPH
During the late 1940s and 1950s, there was a small group of writers known as “The Beats”. They rejected the economic materialism and cultural conformism of that era. Exploring Eastern religions and experimenting with psychedelic drugs; they championed spontaneity. This spontaneity is reflected in their writing. A few books by and about The Beat writers:
- DB031675 Jack Kerouac “On the Road”
- DB033293 Carolyn Cassady “Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg”
- DB057547 William S. Burroughs “Naked Lunch”
- DB064404 Allen Ginsberg “Collected Poems, 1947-1995”
- DB064517 Lawrence Ferlinghetti “These Are My Rivers: New and Selected Poems, 1955-1993”
- DB085836 David Sterritt “The Beats: A Very Short Introduction”
- DB097788 Bob Kaufman “Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman”