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Issue: The Beats: A Graphic History #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2009
 
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Indicia Publisher: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
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Volume: none
Pages: 216
ISBN: 97808090949670809094967
UPC/EAN: 978080909496752200
Price: $22.00 USD
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Content Items: 48 (25 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Paul Buhle
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Color: Black and White
Dimensions: 9.25" x 6.12" (23.49 cm x 15.54 cm)
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Ed Piskor
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Jack Kerouac; Allen Ginsburg; William Burroughs
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In The Beats: A Graphic History, those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat Movement itself.
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Ed Piskor; Mary Fleener; Jerome Neukirch; Peter Kuper; Anne Timmons; Jeffrey Lewis; Summer McClinton
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Jack Kerouac; Allen Ginsburg; William Burroughs; Slim Brundage; Diane di Prima; Neal Cassady; Gary Snyder; Jay Defeo; Tuli Kupferberg; Kenneth Rexroth; Michael McClure; Philip Whalen; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Charles Olson; Robert Creeley; Hettie Cohen
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The Beats

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The Beats: A Graphic History

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Introduction

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Paul Buhle; Harvey Pekar
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The Beats: Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs

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Jack Kerouac

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The Beats: A Graphic History
Jack Kerouac; Edie Parker; Sammy Sampas; Joan Vollmer; Lucien Carr (cameo); William S. Burroughs; Dave Kammerer (cameo); Allen Ginsberg; Herbert Huncke (cameo); Neal Cassady; Carolyn Robinson (cameo); John Clellon Holmes (cameo); Nin Kerouac (cameo); Joan Haverty; Robert Giroux (cameo); Malcolm Cowley (cameo); Alene Lee (cameo); Gore Vidal (cameo); Carl Solomon (cameo); Peter Olovsky (cameo); Lawrence Ferlinghetti (cameo); Gary Snyder (cameo); Philip Whalen (cameo); Norman Mailer (cameo); Jackie Kennedy (cameo); Ellis Amburn (cameo); Stella Sampas (cameo)
The story details Kerouac's life from 1939 to his death in the late sixties.
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Allen Ginsberg

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Allen Ginsberg; Peter Orlovsky (cameo); Salvador Dali (cameo); Jack Kerouac; William S. Burroughs; Lawrence Ferlinghetti (cameo); Dame Edith Sitwell (cameo); Neal Cassady; Joe Levy (cameo); Yevgeny Yevtushenko (cameo); Andrei Voznesensky (cameo); Timothy Leary (cameo); Chogyam Trungpa (cameo); Anne Waldman (cameo); Joe Strummer (cameo); John Hammond (cameo); Daniel Ortega (cameo)
The story touches on Ginberg's life from his birth in 1926 to his death in 1997.
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William S. Burroughs

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William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Jack Kerouac; Joan Vollmer; Herbert Huncke (cameo); Norman Mailer (cameo); Anthony Balch (cameo)
The story touches on Burrough's life from 1929 to his death in 1997
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The Beats: Perspectives

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Mary Fleener; Nick Thorkelson; Gary Dumm
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Kenneth Patchen; Diane di Prima; Jackson Pollock
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The San Francisco Poetry Renaissance

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Kenneth Rexroth
This story details Kenneth Rexroth's contributions to the Beat Movement and the San Francisco poetry scene.
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Michael McClure

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Michael McClure
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Philip Whalen

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Philip Whalen
The story briefly describes Philip Whalen's route into becoming a poet and Buddhist monk.
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Between Rexroth and Gary Snyder in the Bay Area

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Harvey Pekar
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William Everson; Robinson Jeffers
A brief story discussing the poets William Everson and Robinson Jeffers.
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Robert Duncan

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Harvey Pekar
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Robert Duncan
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Ed Piskor
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Gregory Corso

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Harvey Pekar
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Gregory Corso; Allen Ginsberg (cameo)
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Leroi Jones/ Amiri Baraka

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Harvey Pekar
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The Beats: A Graphic History
Leroi Jones [Amiri Baraka]
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Charles Olson

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Harvey Pekar
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Charles Olson; John Cage (cameo)
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Robert Creeley

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Harvey Pekar
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Robert Creeley
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City Lights & The Beats in San Francisco

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The Beats: A Graphic History
Richard Henry Dana (cameo); Mark Twain (cameo); Henry George (cameo); Charlotte Perkins Gilman (cameo); Jack London (cameo); Frank Norris (cameo); Bob Kaufman (cameo); Billie Holiday (cameo); Ruth Weiss (cameo); Michael McClure (cameo); Philip Lamantia (cameo); John Wieners (cameo); David Meltzer (cameo); Lawrence Ferlinghetti (cameo); Shig Murao (cameo); Judge Clayton Horn (cameo); Jack Kerouac (cameo); Diane Di Prima (cameo); Leroi Jones (cameo); Nancy J. Peters (cameo); Paul Yamazaki (cameo)
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Kenneth Patchen

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Harvey Pekar; Nick Thorkelson
Nick Thorkelson
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The Beats: A Graphic History
Kenneth Patchen
A brief rundown on the life of Kenneth Patchen
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Lamantia

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Nancy Joyce Peters; Penelope Rosemont
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Summer McClinton
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The Beats: A Graphic History
Philip Lamantia; Andre Breton (cameo); John Cage (cameo); Parker Tyler (cameo); Alexander Hammid (cameo); Harry Smith (cameo); John Hoffman (cameo); Jack Kerouac (cameo); Paul Bowles (cameo); Leonora Carrington (cameo); Ernesto Cardenal (cameo); Homero Aridjis (cameo); Bob Kaufman (cameo); Sabato Simon Rodia (cameo); Nancy J. Peters (cameo); Ted Joans (cameo); Joyce Mansour (cameo); Lawrence Ferlinghetti (cameo); Franklin Rosemont (cameo); Penelope Rosemont (cameo)
This story details the life of poet Philip Lamantia
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Gary Snyder

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Harvey Pekar
Peter Kuper
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Gary Snyder; Philip Whalen (cameo); Lew Welch (cameo)
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Diane di Prima

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Harvey Pekar; Mary Fleener
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Diane di Prima
A brief rundown on the life of Diane di Prima.
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The Janitor

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Jerome Neukirch
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Slim Brundage
A brief rundown on the life of Slim Brundage.
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Beatnik Chicks

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Joyce Brabner
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Jan Kerouac (cameo); Diane di Prima; Hettie Jones; Joan Kerouac (cameo); Joyce Johnson; Carolyn Cassady; Jack Kerouac (cameo); Allen Ginsberg (cameo); Elise Cowan; Leroi Jones; Neal Cassady
Joyce Brabner details the struggles of the Beat Women.
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Jay Defeo: The Rose

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Trina Robbins
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Anne Timmons
Anne Timmons
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Jay Defeo; Wally Hedrick
A brief story describing how Jay Defeo's painting "The Rose" came about.
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Art Beats

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Gary Dumm; Paul Buhle [aided by]
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Gary Dumm
Gary Dumm
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Jackson Pollock; Jack Kerouac (cameo); Willem De Kooning (cameo); Franz Kline (cameo); Larry Rivers
The story details some connections between the Beats and painters like Jackson Pollock and Larry Rivers.
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Jazz and Poetry

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Harvey Pekar
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Kenneth Rexroth; Dave Tough (cameo); Charles Mingus (cameo); Kenneth Patchen (cameo); Bob Kaufman (cameo); Steve Allen (cameo); Jack Kerouac (cameo); Al Cohn (cameo); Zoot Sims (cameo)
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The Harassment of d.a. levy

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d.a. levy [Daryll Allen Levy]; Allen Ginsberg (cameo); Doug Blazek (cameo); Gary Snyder (cameo)
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Tuli Kupferberg

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Tuli Kupferberg; Ed Sanders; Ken Weaver; Steve Weber; Peter Stampfel; Harry Smith; Velvet Underground (cameo)
Tuli Kupferberg co-wrote this story detailing both his early days in New York City and how The Fugs got together.
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About Our Artists and Writers

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Acknowledgments

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Ed Piskor; Mary Fleener; Jerome Neukirch; Peter Kuper; Anne Timmons; Jeffrey Lewis; Summer McClinton
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Jack Kerouac; Allen Ginsburg; William Burroughs; Slim Brundage; Diane di Prima; Neal Cassady; Gary Snyder; Jay Defeo; Tuli Kupferberg; Kenneth Rexroth; Michael McClure; Philip Whalen; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Charles Olson; Robert Creeley; Hettie Cohen
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Inside back cover flap to the dust jacket. Includes author, jacket design and publisher credits.
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Philip Whalen; Robert Duncan; Leroi Jones/ Amiri Baraka; Charles Olson; Kenneth Rexroth; Michael McClure
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