| Description |
xxvii, 685 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
The outlandish and often controversial verses of bohemians, beatniks, hippies, punks, slackers, and other malcontents is collected in this primer of the dispossessed. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Alan Kaufman -- Publisher's Note / Neil Ortenberg -- Walt Whitman / Shut Not Your Doors -- Prologue: Voices From Outlaw Heaven -- Poem To The Freaks / Jack Micheline -- Soul Eyes / Jim Brodey -- Sitting on a Bench Near TSQuare / d.a. levy -- In the Event of My Demise / Tupac Shakur -- Mein Kampf / David Lerner -- American Renegades -- Sapphire -- Wild Thing -- Rabbit Man -- 1989 cont./Gorilla in the Midst #6 -- d.a. levy. |
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From Tombstone as a Lonely Charm (Part 3) -- From Cleveland Undercovers -- From Suburban Monastery Death Poem -- The Bells of Cherokee Ponies -- The suburban prophets (for R.D.D.) -- Poem for Beverly -- Reality Jew (1964) -- From Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions -- Diane diPrima -- Revolutionary Letter #1 -- Revolutionary Letter #4 -- Revolutionary Letter #12 -- Revolutionary Letter #29 -- Revolutionary Letter #36 -- Tracking Bob Dylan / Peter Coyote. |
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Wanted Man / Bob Dylan -- Woody Guthrie -- Jesse James and His Boys -- Jesus Christ -- David Trinidad -- In a Suburb of Thebes -- Night and Fog (San Francisco) -- The Shower Scene in Psycho -- Bob Kaufman -- Bagel Shop Jazz -- I, Too, Know What I Am Not -- Would You Wear My Eyes? -- To My Son Parker, Asleep in the Next Room -- Jail Poems 1-34 -- Abomunist Manifesto -- Short Speech to My Friends / Amiri Baraka -- How to Proceed in the Arts / Larry Rivers, Frank O'Hara. |
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On Jackson Pollock / Helen A. Harrison -- (Untitled) / Jackson Pollock -- Patti Smith -- Ballad of a Bad Boy -- Libya -- Babelogue -- High on Rebellion -- Notebook -- Notes for the Future: August 2, 1998, New York City -- Notes, New York City, 1976 -- Ode to a Tijuana Toilet / James Dean -- 9th & Hennepin / Tom Waits -- Jack Micheline -- Beauty Is Everywhere Beaudelaire -- Hiding Places -- On Franz Kline. |
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Warren Finnerty Riding a Bicycle on 4th Avenue at Midnight Dreaming of Love and Wine and Franz Kline -- Stone of the Heart -- Blues Poem -- One Arm -- Poem to the Seventeenth of November 1962 -- Rambling Jack (a biography) -- Chasing Kerouac's Shadow -- On Henry Miller / Lawrence Durrell -- Henry Miller -- A Poem in Prose for My Venus -- Advice to a Young Writer -- The Shortest Novel of Them All / Norman Mailer -- Sarah Menefee -- From a letter to Jim Scully, December 1994. |
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From The Blood About the Heart -- Jack Hirschman -- Europe -- The Recognition #2 -- NY, NY -- Haiti -- Buy, Always Consume (by Ferruccio Brugnaro, translated by Jack Hirschman) -- Home -- Act (by Roque Dalton, translated by Jack Hirschman) -- An Essay on William Carlos Williams / Victor Hernandez Cruz -- Harold Norse -- We Bumped off Your Friend the Poet -- I'm Not a Man -- The Ex-Nun and the Gay Poet -- William Carlos Williams -- Classic Frieze in a Garage. |
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Let Go and Feel Your Nakedness -- At the Cafe Trieste -- Dream of Frank O'Hara -- Letter to Harold Norse, February 14th, 1957 / William Carlos Williams -- Ten Outlaw Heroes / Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg -- Jack Kerouac -- 241st Chorus -- 149th Chorus -- 211th Chorus -- Neal Cassady -- Adventures in Auto-eroticism -- Leaving L.A. by Train at Night, High ... -- Gregory Corso -- Poet Talking to Himself in the Mirror -- Dear Villon -- Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway. |
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Greenwich Village Suicide -- C'mon Pigs of Western Civilization, Eat More Grease / Allen Ginsberg -- Harold Norse -- Letter to William Carlos Williams, February 23, 1957 -- Letter to William Carlos Williams, October 4, 1958 -- Letter to Harold Norse, August 26, 1960 / William Carlos Williams -- South Central Los Angeles Death Trip, 1982 / Wanda Coleman -- Kathy Acker -- From Devoured by Myths, an interview with Sylvere Lotringer -- I Begin to Feel -- William S. Burroughs. |
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The Evening News -- "My Legs Senor." -- Cold Lost Marbles -- Amy Gerstler -- A Non-Christian on Sunday -- The Bride Goes Wild -- Pedro Pietri -- In His Own Words -- Puerto Rican Obituary -- Telephone Booth number 301 -- Telephone Booth number 507 -- Telephone Booth number 898 1/2 -- Telephone Booth number 63765057 -- Telephone Booth number 542 -- Telephone Booth number 32439 -- The Galilee Hitch-Hiker / Richard Brautigan -- Dominique Lowell. |
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Bike Messenger Leading the People -- Women Are Hungry -- Manifest Destiny -- An Oliver Stone Movie -- From Song of the Open Road, parts 1 & 2 / Walt Whitman -- Walt Whitman Strides the Llano of New Mexico / Rudolfo Anaya -- Ken DiMaggio -- These Are My Words, My Neon, Siliconed, Carcinogenic Words. But This Is My Poem, My Poem About Elvis -- Alan Kaufman -- Bus -- House of Strangers -- Who Are We? -- The Saddest Man on Earth. |
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On Reading Whitman's Song of Myself at One O'Clock in the Morning -- Across the Mississippi -- Let Us -- David Lerner -- The Crucifixion of Johnny Carson -- Slamdancing to the Blues -- Blasted Youth -- Satan After Hours -- Thief of Fire -- The Night of the Living Tits -- Why Rimbaud Went to Africa -- Daniel Higgs -- From The Exploding Parable -- From Clay Man High House Head -- From What I Have Learned About Boxing -- From the Doomsday Bonnet, #16, #27 -- Slammers. |
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The Slam / Alan Kaufman -- Marc Smith -- Lucky Strike No Strike Back -- The Stroke -- Patricia Smith -- Skinhead -- Medusa -- Lisa Martinovic -- Debt of Blood -- The Outlaw -- Welcome To McDonalds / Reg E. Gaines -- My Life as I Remember It / Bobby Miller -- In the Hands of the Enemy / Vytautas Pliura -- Jeffrey McDaniel -- Lineage -- Logic in the House of Sawed-off Telescopes -- Siamese Opposites -- Check One / Regie Cabico -- Maggie Estep -- I'm an Emotional Idiot. |
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Scab Maids on Speed -- Jenny's Shirt -- Like Lilly Like Wilson / Taylor Mali -- William, I Giggled with Your Girlfriend / Hank Hyena -- Project Princess / Tracie Morris -- Imagining America / Justin Chin -- Mandela / Evert Eden -- It's a Good Day / Sini Anderson -- Chicks Up Front / Sara Holbrook -- The Scalping / Daniel Ferri -- American Renegades -- Eileen Myles -- An American Poem -- Holes -- I Always Put My Pussy ... -- Malcolm / Umar Bin Hassan. |
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Gerry Gomez Pearlberg -- Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette -- First Date with the D.J. -- For Brandon Teena -- Sailor -- Gil Scott-Heron -- Evolution -- From Tomorrow -- Lenny Bruce -- What Is a Jew? -- How to Score -- To Come -- Africa / Richard Pryor -- I Told You I Like Indians / Simon J. Ortiz -- Hettie Jones -- Subway Poem -- In the Eye of the Beholder -- Words -- Two Horses / Joy Harjo -- The Crippled Artist / Thomas McGrath -- Jayne Cortez -- Global Inequalities. |
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The Heavy Headed Dance -- Barney Rosset and The Evergreen Review / Mike Topp -- Barney Rosset -- Ernest Hemingway -- The Little Sons of Fidel -- If my Enemy is A Clown, A Natural Born Clown / Ishmael Reed -- Luis J. Rodriguez -- To the police officer who refused to sit in the same room as my son because he's a "gang banger" -- Rosalie Has Candles -- Somebody Was Breaking Windows -- Chota -- Believe Me When I Say ... -- Meeting the Animal in Washington Square Park. |
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Don't Read That Poem! -- It's Dumb to be a Member of a Dominant Species / Alice Notley -- Kathe Izzo -- For Seattle Boy Sacred Mantle -- From I Am in Danger Nowhere in This World -- Joe Brainard -- Van Gogh -- Sick Art -- Art -- Death -- Ron Padgett -- The Fortune Cookie Man -- To Woody Woodpecker -- Mike Topp -- Rejected Mafia Nicknames -- Disappointment -- What Kind of Cars They Drove -- Just Go Fuck Yourself -- This Mind Is Buddah -- Tozan's Pretzels. |
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We Have Chocolate Pudding -- What Is the Beautiful? / Kenneth Patchen -- The Scattering of the Ashes: The Burial of a Poet / Miguel Algarin -- Miguel Pinero -- Seekin's the Cause -- Twice a Month Is Mother's Day -- Poem--Miguel Pinero / David Henderson -- A Mongo Affair / Miguel Algrin -- John Bennet -- Ode to My Mother -- A Wish Come True -- Much Ado About Nothing -- Reasons to Drink -- Molecular Conspiracy -- Playing the Game -- John Farris -- Some Profession. |
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Brother -- Imago -- Note to Lorca -- Sonia Sanchez -- A Poem for Jesse -- On Passing thru Morgantown, Pa. -- Father Daniel Berrigan -- Prophecy -- Children in the Shelter -- Rehabilitative Report: We Can Still Laugh -- Georgetown Poems (7) -- Assata Shakur -- Culture -- Story -- Psalm XVI / Hubert Selby Jr. -- A chipped black hole / Bill Shields -- In the Vicinity of a Grocer / Michael Gizzi -- Lungs of Glass / Mike Golden -- Wallace Berman -- Untitled -- Opos. |
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Boxed City -- First & Last FearPoem -- Untitled -- Maura O'Connor -- Gravity -- Testimony -- At the End -- David Meltzer -- From Beat Thing -- From The Eyes, The Blood -- Compensation Portrait / Joel Lewis -- Steve Dalachinsky -- Incomplete Directions -- The Saxophone Factory -- The Bones #2 -- James Dean -- Meat Poets -- The Mimeo Revolution / D.R. Wagner -- A Bukowski Writing Lesson / Steve Richmond -- A.D. Winans -- Thinking About Then and Now -- The System. |
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Poem for the Working Man and the Upper Mobile Yuppie -- Poetry / William Wantling -- David Roskos -- Certain Prostitute -- Poem for Paulie -- Frozen Alley / Fritz Hamilton -- Jim Chandler -- Jailhouse Dreams #1 -- Dead Kid -- No Rain Sunday Morning -- Round Up / Ann Menebroker -- From Machine Gun / Todd Moore -- Fred Voss -- A Threat -- Termination -- Joan Jobe Smith -- Aboard the Bounty -- Land of a Thousand Dances -- Gerald Locklin -- Beyond B.F. Skinner. |
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Paul Cezanne: Self Portrait, 1875 -- Paul Cezanne: The Large Bathers, 1906 -- On Marvin Malone and The Wormwood Review / Alan Kaufman -- Ten Commandments for How to Successfully Publish a Little Magazine / Marvin Malone -- American Renegades -- Jim Morrison -- The American Night -- LAmerica -- From Resume / Jennifer Blowdryer -- Punk Rock Royalty / Iris Berry -- Video Violence / Lou Reed -- Montecito / Karen Finley -- On 115 / Melvin Van Peebles. |
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City Madness / Ray Bremser -- From Martin XIV / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Chopped Scooter / Cal (With Danny Lyon) -- The Kid / Ai -- Geometry / Ken Kesey -- Song to Fidel (translated by Ed Dorn and Gordon Brotherston) / Che Guevara -- Leonard Cohen -- What Is A Saint -- Disguises -- Turtle Blues / Janis Joplin -- An Aging Radical Muses on His Conjugal Visits / Neil Ortenberg -- Collect Telegram from a Mad Dog / Hunter S. Thompson -- David Wojnarowicz. |
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Hobo on Flatcar Eastbound for St. Paul -- Young Boy in Bus Station Coffee Shop -- Man in Harbor Coffee Shop -- Jim Carroll -- 8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain -- Facts -- Jukebox -- The Ocean Below -- With van Gogh -- Rimbaud Sees the Dentist -- School Prayer for the 80's / Abbie Hoffman -- Tuli Kupferberg -- The New America -- Great Moments in the History of Capitalism -- Where Is My Wandering Jew -- Paint It Red (and Black) -- The Babarians. |
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This Is the Babarians / David Lerner -- Bruce Isaacson -- Lost My Job & Wrote This Poem -- Poetry in Orange County -- In the Bookstore / Julia Vinograd -- Kathleen Wood -- Gregory -- The Wino, The Junkie, and The Lord -- I'm Not Mad / Vampyre Mike Kassel -- The Real Me / Kathi Georges -- I Was with Her Long Enough To Change Brands of Cigarettes / Bucky Sinister -- Danny Shot -- The Living Legend -- On Long Shot -- It's About the End of the World Stupid / Jack Wiler. |
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klipschutz -- America -- Dear Ezra -- As for Us / David Gollub -- (some) people have enough problems / Q.R. Hand -- Mal de Tete / Bana Witt -- American Renegades -- Homage to Hersch / Allen Ginsberg -- From High on the Beats / Herschel Silverman -- Wail Bar Night / Andy Clausen -- Mad Dogs of Trieste / Janine Pommy Vega -- The Woman at the Palace of the Legion of Honor / Neeli Cherkovski -- New York Guy in Berlin Night / Buddy Giovinazzo -- Career Move / Penny Arcade. |
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Murdered in the Middle of the Dance / Steven J. Bernstein -- Elsie John / Herbert Huncke -- Path / Jeff Gordon -- Just Say NO to Family Values / John Giorno -- Ira Cohen -- Electronic Multimedia Shamanism -- Letter to Caliban -- From Songs of the Revolution / Julian Beck -- Leaflet for Soldiers / Judith Malina -- Poem in the Manner of Paul Blackburn / Gerard Malanga -- First Lady / Eve Wood -- Henry J. Morro -- Marilyn Monroe Is Dead -- Barbie -- Eric Brown. |
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You Fucking Cunt -- Billie and Satchmo -- Harvesting Organs: On the Head-Injury Death of a 24 Year Old Boy in Vermont / Ed Dorn -- Ball & Chain Record Store / Ellyn Maybe -- Asteroid Poem #15 / FrancEyE -- Pact / Anne Waldman -- For Madeline Gleason / ruth weiss -- Charles Plymell -- Was Poe Afraid? -- Cool Hobohemians 1950's Bennies from Heaven Poem -- Displaced Poet / Paul Landry -- The states / George Tsongas -- In Memorian: Charles Mingus / Mikhail Horowitz. |
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For Frank / Kaye McDonough -- From Bones / Marc Olmsted -- Collaborating with Kerouac / David Amram -- Hey, Jack! / Jan Kerouac -- Jack Kerouac Returns to Lowell after 25 Years / Gerald Nicosia -- The Door for Love and Death / Laurel Ann Bogen -- Stuart Z. Perkoff -- Untitled -- The Suicide Room -- Love Is the Silence -- Untitled -- Tony Scibella -- Venice West -- Untitled -- Memoirs of a Nun of Fire / Philomene Long -- Skull / Nelson Gary. |
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7th Sound for John Garfield / James Ryan Morris -- Untitled / Rafael F.J. Alvarado -- You'll Despise Me for This, But I'm Going to Say It Anyway / John Thomas -- Venice / William J. Margolis -- Frank T. Rios -- Invocation -- & sometimes it all hangs crooked -- Ritual -- The Carma Bums -- The Carma Bums (Because This Is What America's All About) / S.A. Griffin -- Cartoons Are My Life / Michael Bruner -- S. A. Griffin -- I Ate Fig Newtons Until I Puked -- America Poem. |
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There Is a River -- Sunset Strip Self-Improvement Affirmations / Doug Knott -- No Mercy / Scott Wannberg -- Mike Mollett -- I Am the Bomb -- The Word -- American Renegades -- The San Francisco Oracle: A Brief History / Allen Cohen -- Michael McClure -- The God I Worship Is a Lion -- Jesus I Am Sick of the Spiritual Warfare! -- After the Cries of the Birds Has Stopped / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Characteristically / Philip Whalen -- In Transit / Lenore Kandel. |
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Seed Pods / Gary Snyder -- Astromancy / Phillip Lamantia -- Manifesto for Mutants / Ted Berk -- My Life / Michael Lally -- Downtown Woman / Julia Stein -- Ten Commandments of a Street Poet / Tony Medina -- Bob Flanagan -- Bukowski Poem -- Handcuffs -- From Slave Sonnet #1 -- From Slave Sonnet #7 -- From Slave Sonnet #10 -- The Wedding of Everything -- This Is the Land of Missed Opportunity / Steve Cannon -- Suzanne Goes Down / Rebecca Fransway. |
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On Prison Poetry / Janine Pommy Vega -- To Those / Mumia Abu-Jamal -- Sing Sing Sits Up The River / Alejo Dao'ud Rodriguez -- After All Those Years / Cecil Boatswain -- Fugitive / Frank Fissette -- My Room / Hannah Aquaah -- Lap 15512 / Herby Ehinger -- My Father / Mark "9-Box" Benyo -- Trapped / Israel Fernandez -- The Unbearables -- Introduction to The Unbearables / Marvin Taylor -- Archaeology / Bonnie Finberg -- Dead Louis / Tsaurah Litzsky. |
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Factory Still Life / Ron Kolm -- Kurt Cobain / Sparrow -- God Is Here / Michael Carter -- Moral / Merry Fortune -- The Bus Driver's Secret Song / Max Blagg -- Orgasm / Patricia Freed Ackerman -- Sound Effects / Janice Eidus -- Q/A / Jim Feast -- Write a fucking poem / Mike Golden -- Slave / David Huberman -- Them / C.X. Hunter -- The Professional / Joe Maynard -- Cafe Ennui / Sharon Mesmer -- Panoplistic Traditions in Memphis / Jill Rapaport. |
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Yardbirds of Vermont / Thaddeus Rutkowski -- Manhattan / Susan Scutti -- Thursday Night in the Park / Hal Sirowitz -- Business District / Mike Topp -- Spanish Girls / Claude Taylor -- Mendel's Law / David L. Ulin -- I Want the Nobel Prize / Albert Vitale -- Teeth & Totemism / Carl Watson -- Untitled / Diwan-i Hayan Kirmani, N. Pourjaundy, Peter Lamborn Wilson -- Red Snappers / Carol Wierzbicki -- Poets To Come / Walt Whitman. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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Experimental poetry, American.
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Beats (Persons) -- Poetry.
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Performance art.
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Sound poetry.
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| Added Author |
Kaufman, Alan.
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| ISBN |
1560252367 cloth |
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9781560252368 cloth |
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1560252278 |
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9781560252276 |
