POETRY
City
Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin started a magazine there called 'City Lights'.
They decided to open a bookstore on the floor below as a side venture, naming
it after the magazine.
The City Lights Bookstore became one of the most famous bookstores in the
world, and still stands proudly in its original location.
A
Coney Island of the Mind : Poems
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Ferlinghetti was one of the more politically-minded of the Beats, and has
been continually active on behalf of liberal causes. Ferlinghetti is still
active today as a poet and as the proprietor of City Lights.
 E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 |
 100 Selected Poems |
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ee cummings was my introduction to anti-war poetry in the sixties.
ee cummings is fresh as ever still my favorite to read aloud.
David's Copy : The Selected Poems of David Meltzer
David's Copy, released in 2005, is the first major collection of Meltzer's poetry in nearly ten years. It spans a career in a bohemian underground rich with diverse social experiments in life and art. Meltzer, the renowned San Francisco beatnik from Brooklyn began his literary career during the beat heyday in San Francisco, reading poetry to jazz accompaniment at the famous Jazz Cellar. This new selected collection gleaned from 30 previous books published over the course of 40-plus years proves why he is one of my very favorite poets and anyone familiar with his work will most certainly want to have this book. If you do not know of David Meltzer, buy this book and you will discover why so many poetry lovers revere him. David lives in the Bay Area and teaches in the graduate Poetics and undergraduate Humanities programs at New College of California.
Journals : Early Fifties Early Sixties by Allen Ginsberg
Here are journal entries, notes, dreams, and reflections from the period
when Ginsberg and his fellow Beats led the insurrection that profoundly altered
America's cultural landscape.
Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg 2 DISC SET
Book of Hats:
Selected Poems
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by Allen Cohen
illustrations by Ann Cohen.
The poems in the Book of Hats were written while the author was working at the Shlock Shop on Grant Avenue in North Beach.
"poems of truest compassion for endlessly bedeviled humanity rendered in the crisp bell tones of a tenor horn" . . Gerald Nicosia.
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Poems
This is a recently published copy of this book, originally published with translations in 1970.
While most people are familiar with Herman Hesse's novels, his poetry is not well known.
A few years after his death in 1962, Hesse's novels enjoyed a revival of popularity because of they resonated with countercultural ideals of the 1960s. ( Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi) for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.) These and other Hesse novels were republished in paperback editions and were widely read by university students and the young people in the United States and Europe.
Jim Morrison's Books of Poetry :
The
Lords, and the New Creatures,Poems
Wilderness
: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison
The
American Night (The Writings of Jim Morrison, Vol 2)
Like It Was
by James Koller
A collection of James Koller's writings from and about northern california
in the 1960's in poetry, journal and fiction forms, with photos by Zoe Brow.
The
Love Book
by Lenore Kandel
Lenore Kandel was prosecuted for obscenity in 1967 in San Francisco. Her short
book of poetry "The Love Book" which had been available at the Psychedelic
Shop on Haight Street was banned in 1967 by the California Supreme Court .
Until now It has been out of print for 36 years despite its ban being lifted
in 1973. This newly printed edition features a newly designed three color cover,
hand-stitched binding, a printing history, and archival quality paper.
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
edited by Alan Kaufman
Five hundred pages of the history of underground poetry, from the Beats to the present.
First published in 1999, this collection features work from notable poets, including Jack Micheline, Harold Norse, David Trinidad, Jim Chandler, Rebecca Fransway, and even James Dean. Plus hundreds of other poets , many well-known and some you may never have heard of but hopefully will enjoy.
Poems and Songs by an old hippie Carl is alive and well in Denver, Colorado. In October of 1993, he was in a serious car accident in which he became physically challenged. Armed with a computer and lots of spare time, he put this book together. It is a dream come true. Now he wants to help other disabled people realize their dreams. With every book sold, Carl will make a donation to the National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) and the Colorado Brain Injury Association (BIAC). Help him keep the spirit alive!
My
Hippie Grandmother
by Reeve Lindbergh, Abby Carter (Illustrator)
for Kindergarten-Grade 3
Charmingly illustrated, this poetic little book is the perfect gift to share
with children.
Kenneth Patchen Collected Poems
Kenneth Patchen is another of my very favorite poets.
If you are not familiar with Patchen and his life you have overlooked
one of strongest voices who spoke out against war and for Peace and
Love long before we hippies took up that banner.
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
The first edition of Leaves of Grass appeared in July 1855 at Whitman's own expense Whitman's use of free verse had a deep influence on poetry. He was a great inspiration and example for the beat-generation (Ginsberg, Kerouac etc.). Whitman wanted to be a national Poet, but his erotic poetry separated him from conventionally romantic poets.
Mountains and Rivers Without End by Gary Synder
Turtle Island by Gary Synder
This book won Gary Snyder the Pulitzer back in 1975
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems by Gary Snyder
“The world is our consciousness, and it surrounds us. There are more things in mind, in the imagination, than ‘you’ can keep track of—thoughts, memories, images, angers, delights, rise unbidden. The depths of mind, the unconscious, are our inner wilderness areas.”Gary Synder, the poet, Buddhist, and eco-activist, teacher
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Omar Khayyam,Shakespeare, ee cummings
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