Beat Down to Your Soul

by Charters, Ann (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780141001517
• ISBN10: 0141001518
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

An anthology of works by Beat figures, as well as essays and commentaries, explores the light side of the Beat generation, its impact on post-World War II American culture, and the contribution of women authors.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction: What Was the Beat Generation?	xv
PART ONE I Writers on the Beat Generation (1948-2000)
``Circular from America''	3	(7)
George Barker
``Award to Lawrence Ferlinghetti''	10	(8)
Al Bendich
``Poets and Odd Fellows''	18	(17)
Bonnie Bremser (Brenda Frazer)
``The Village Scene''	26	(9)
``Follow the East River''	35	(7)
Ray Bremser
``Blues for Bonnie-Take 1, January 1960''	41	(1)
``A Portrait of the Hipster''	42	(7)
Anatole Broyard
``The Cult of Unthink''	49	(9)
Robert Brustein
``Yowl for Jay Mclnerney''	58	(4)
Christopher Buckley
Paul Slansky
``Remembering Jack Kerouac''	62	(7)
William S. Burroughs
From Off the Road	69	(15)
Carolyn Cassady
Foreword to Grace Beats Karma	78	(6)
Letter to Jack Kerouac, February 1951	84	(6)
Neal Cassady
Letter to Carolyn Cassady, October 16, 1958	87	(3)
``With Jack Kerouac in Hyannis''	90	(7)
Ann Charters
``Hipsters, Flipsters, and Finger Poppin' Daddies: A Note on His Lordship, Lord Buckley, the Hippest of the Hipsters''	97	(13)
Samuel Charters
``Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway''	110	(6)
Gregory Corso
``Spontaneous Requiem for the American Indian''	111	(5)
``The Floating Bear, a newsletter''	116	(16)
Diane di Prima
``Rant''	129	(3)
`` `Punching a Hole in the Big Lie': The Achievement of William S. Burroughs''	132	(18)
Ann Douglas
``Dionysus and the Beat Generation''	150	(18)
William Everson
``Four Letters on the Archetype''	157	(11)
``Note on Poetry in San Francisco''	168	(5)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
From ``Work-in-Progress''	169	(2)
``A Buddha in the Woodpile''	171	(2)
``White Like Me: Anatole Broyard''	173	(31)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Letter to John Allen Ryan, September 9, 1955	204	(18)
Allen Ginsberg
Letter to Richard Eberhart, May 18, 1956	208	(11)
``Poetry, Violence, and the Trembling Lambs''	219	(3)
``This is the Beat Generation''	222	(16)
John Clellon Holmes
``The Philosophy of the Beat Generation''	228	(10)
``The Needle''	238	(13)
Herbert Huncke
From Guilty of Everything	240	(11)
From Minor Characters	251	(4)
Joyce Johnson
From How I Became Hettie Jones	255	(6)
Hettie Jones
``Abomunist Manifesto''	261	(11)
Bob Kaufman
From Who Wouldn't Walk with Tigers?	272	(8)
Eileen Kaufman
``He's Just Wild About Writing: W. S. Burroughs' The Wild Boys''	280	(5)
Alfred Kazin
``Meeting Neal Cassady''	285	(11)
Joan Haverty Kerouac
I Ching: December 28, 1984	296	(1)
Ken Kesey
``Tapestry''	297	(2)
Joanne Kyger
``It Is Lonely''	298	(1)
``My Father Died This Spring''	298	(1)
``The Beats''	299	(4)
Wayne Lawson
``Black Beats: The Signifying Poetry of LeRoi Jones/Imamu Amiri Baraka, Ted Joans, and Bob Kaufman''	303	(25)
A. Robert Lee
``Hipster and Beatnik''	328	(4)
Norman Mailer
``Leave the Word Alone''	332	(11)
Edward Marshall
``Where the Open Road Meets Howl''	343	(12)
Ian Marshall
``Burroughs' Naked Lunch''	355	(10)
Mary McCarthy
``1957''	365	(5)
Joanna McClure
``A Letter to My Daughter Who Will Be Four Years Old''	367	(2)
``The Hunt''	369	(1)
``Piece''	369	(1)
``Poetry of the 6''	370	(7)
Michael McClure
``Anatomy of a Beatnik''	377	(10)
Fred W. McDarrah
From Beat Thing	387	(20)
David Meltzer
``Poetry & Jazz''	397	(10)
Preface to The Subterraneans	407	(2)
Henry Miller
Review of On the Road, September 5, 1957	409	(4)
Gilbert Millstein
``To Allen Ginsberg''	413	(2)
Czeslaw Milosz
``Down the Road''	415	(9)
Joyce Carol Oates
``The Only Rebellion Around''	424	(16)
Paul O'Neil
``Collaboration: Letter to Charlie Chaplin''	440	(2)
Peter Orlovsky
``A Conversation with My Father''	442	(6)
Grace Paley
``The Beat Writers: Phenomenon or Generation''	448	(15)
Thomas Parkinson
``Children of the Beats''	463	(16)
Daniel Pinchbeck
``The Know-Nothing Bohemians''	479	(14)
Norman Podhoretz
``Disengagement: The Art of the Beat Generation''	493	(16)
Kenneth Rexroth
``Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century''	509	(7)
Ed Sanders
``Notes on the Beat Generation''	516	(17)
Gary Snyder
``The New Wind''	521	(3)
``Buddhism and the Possibilities of a Planetary Culture''	524	(3)
From Cold Mountain Poems	527	(6)
``Song for Bird and Myself''	533	(5)
Jack Spicer
``American Dreamers: Melville and Kerouac''	538	(6)
Robert Stone
``Kerouac's Sound''	544	(16)
Warren Tallman
``The Other Night at Columbia: A Report from the Academy''	560	(17)
Diana Trilling
``The Disappearing Bohemian''	577	(7)
David L. Ulin
``On the Sidewalk''	584	(4)
John Updike
``Lineages & Legacies''	588	(13)
Anne Waldman
``Influence: Language, Voice, Beat and Energy of Kerouac's Poetry''	590	(6)
``Notes on Sitting Beside a Noble Corpse''	596	(2)
``One Inch of Love Is An Inch of Ashes''	598	(1)
``Burroughs: `Hurry up. It's time.' ''	598	(3)
Introduction to Ginsberg's ``Howl for Carl Solomon''	601	(3)
William Carlos Williams
Letter to Joseph Renard, March 24, 1958	603	(1)
``What Do You Think of My Buddha?''	604	(5)
Tom Wolfe
PART TWO Panel Discussion with Women Writers of the Beat Generation (1996)	609	(24)
Carolyn Cassady
Ann Charters
Joyce Johnson
Hettie Jones
Eileen Kaufman
Joanna McClure
PART THREE Chronology of Selected Books, Magazines, Films, and Recordings Relating to Beat Generation Authors (1950-2000)	633	(22)
Selected Bibliography	655