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The Beat Movement,which started in the 1940's with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, also included other avant garde poets, writers, filmmakers and visual artists on the East and West coasts.This book served as the catalogue for an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art which was curated by Lisa Phillips. It contains nine essays by art, film and cultural historians, a detailed chronology of the Beat mmovement and a bibliography, Contributors include Lisa Phillips, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Sanders and Rebecca Solnit. It is heavily documented with photographs of the group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents New York Times book review: William S. Burroughs "didn't say anything for shock value," his student Sam Kashner once observed. "His life had shock value." Born to a prominent St. Louis family in 1914, Burroughs linked his lineage at every point to the fatal plotlines of American hubris and power. His mother's family had been slave owners in the antebellum South; his paternal grandfather invented the adding machine, a building block in the embryonic military-­industrial-media complex. His uncle Ivy Lee, a pioneer of public relations, counted Hitler's regime among his preferred clients. Burroughs himself spent time in Vienna in the 1930s and learned a lesson he never forgot: Everything Hitler did was legal. Laws could spur, not deter, the blackest of crimes. To top it off, young Bill had also attended the Los Alamos Ranch School in New Mexico, which in 1943 would be co-opted for the Manhattan Project. "The sick soul, sick unto death, of the atomic age" became his great...

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levy's handwritten letter to Jacob Leed on verso page 3 mentions waiting for a poem by Alan Ginsberg and putting out Egyptian Stroboscope. The Smithbox is an experimental non-fictional piece replete with run-on as well as obscene words. it includes a minimalist poem by Bob Barker and a visuonary line drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue carries an interview with Jean-Jacque Lebel on the history of Happenings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Beat Hotel on 9 rue Git-le-Coeur in Paris, was the residence of the Beat writers during the years 1957 to 1963. It was here that Ginsberg wrote Kaddish, Gysin discovered the cut-up method and Dream Machine, Burroughs completed and published Naked Lunch, and Corso wrote the Bomb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue annotates and depicts several books from the library of Pound and Rudge from their years in Venice. The dedications and the marginal notes reflect the personal and intellectual influence of Olga Rudge. The collection includes several volumes inscribed and gifted to Pound by Allen Ginsberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a list of books from the library of Alan Clodd, a supplement to Catalogue1358 Against the Grain, ossued by Maggs Bros. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Dennis Cooper provided an interview of Pettibon and Robert Storr contributed a survey of the artist's work titled "You Are What You Read." Ulrich Loock focuses on a single work "Vavoom" in his essay. The catalogue also includes a section on Pettibon's writings and a chronology of his work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This article presents a brief history of levy's stay in Cleveland culminating in a proclamation by its Mayor and Cuyagoaga County commissioners of February 14, 1986 as "D.A. Levy Poetry Day." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.