num_pages: 376
description: Here is an unusually diverse collection of Beat voices, including not only Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg, but Amiri Baraka, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen. Also included are short biographies of the writers and a "Literary Guide to Beat Places" around the world.
language: English
title: The Beat Book
titlecomplete: The Beat Book
genres: Essays, American, Short Stories, Poetry, Literature, Anthologies, Fiction, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 597
publisher: Shambhala