Beat
By: Christopher Felver, photographs/commentary.
Publisher: Last Gasp
Published: 2007
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780867196719
Subjects: Felver, Christopher, -- 1946-; Beat Generation.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Portraits.  ; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; National characteristics, American, in literature.; Counterculture -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works.; Bohemianism -- United States.; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Genres: Biography.; Pictorial works.; Portraits.  
Description: A collection of images, text, ephemera, artifacts, and reminiscence celebrates the creative spirit and joyous antics of the men and women known as the Beat Generation.  Spotlighted are Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Ken Kesey, Jay DeFeo, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern, Patti Smith, Anne Waldman, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsburg, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and many more.
Notes: On inside endpapers: excerpts from typescript of Kerouac's On the road.

Introductory material by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Amiri Baraka, David Amram, Carolyn Cassady, and Neal Cassady.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: San Francisco; title: Naropa; title: New York; title: Celebration; title: Twilight; title: Biographies.