San Francisco beat
Subtitle: talking with the poets
By: edited by David Meltzer.
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: American poetry -- California -- San Francisco -- History and criticism.; Poets, American -- Homes and haunts -- California -- San Francisco.; Beat generation -- California -- San Francisco.; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.; Beat generation -- Interviews.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- In literature.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: "San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment is a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s, was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and enterprise, opting instead for a life of personal, spiritual, and artistic adventure.

In these intimate, free-wheeling conversations, a baker's dozen of the poets of San Francisco talk about, the scene then and now, the traditions of poetry, and about anarchism, globalism, Zen, the Bomb, the Kabbalah, and the Internet."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.