{"product_id":"the-portable-beat-reader-paperback","title":"The Portable Beat Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVarious\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnn Charters\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was \"beat.\" Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. It was the junk-sick surrealism of William Burroughs; the wild, Whitmanesque poetry of Allen Ginsberg; and the lumberjack Zen of Gary Snyder. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Portable Beat Reader\u003c\/i\u003e collects the most significant writing of these and fellow members (and spiritual descendants) of the Beat Generation, including Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Bob Dylan, Leroi Jones, and Michael McClure. In poetry, fiction, essays, song lyrics, letters, and memoirs, it captures the triumphant rudeness, energy, and exhilaration of a movement that swept through American letters with hurricane force. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnn Charters\u003c\/b\u003e, a Jack Kerouac and Beat Generation scholar, is professor of American Literature emerita at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. in 1966, she worked with Kerouac to compile his bibliography, and was the only biographer who interviewed him about the circumstances in which he wrote his books. She is the author of his first biography, \u003ci\u003eKerouac\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1973. She edited his posthumous poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eScattered Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the editor of numerous books on Beat and other literature, including \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Beat Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Sixties Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeat Down to Your Soul\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Jack Kerouac Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, and two volumes of Kerouac's \u003ci\u003eSelected Letters\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 688\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 7.76 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 29, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45253188452454,"sku":"9780142437537","price":31.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/aWhrSGJrLzgvQ2dVUHR0cVR0dmlQZz09.webp?v=1773586231","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-portable-beat-reader-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}