num_pages: 744
description: The companion volume to The Portable Beat Reader brings together more than seventy-five reviews, memoirs, poems, essays, and sketches that capture the beliefs, controversies, and credos of the Beat Generation writers of the 1950s, offering profiles of all major Beat figures, as well as critical commentaries by writers and critics. Original.
language: English
title: Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation?
titlecomplete: Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation?
genres: History, Nonfiction, Anthologies
ratings_count: 94
publisher: Penguin Books