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Beat Writers Collection Beat Writers Collection Illinois Wesleyan University Tate Archives and Special Collections May 2021 This collection is primarily comprised of monographs and periodicals created by writers in the Beat Generation. The entire collection is cataloged and housed in call number order in Special Collections (The Ames Library, 4th Floor, Tate Archives & Special Collections). This collection guide is arranged in alphabetical order by author or publication title. A small amount of conference material is also available for the Literary Renaissance Conference, May 1994, including a Tenth Anniversary Issue (No. 26, Spring 1994) of The Kerouac Connection. Algren, Nelson Algren, Nelson The Man with the Golden Arm New York: Double Day, 1949. PS 350 .L4625 M377 The Ark San Francisco, Calif. : The Ark, 1947- PS301 .A75 1947: Spring Ark II. Moby I. Poetry. Cross Section. San Francisco, Calif. : The Ark, 1956. PS 301 .A7 1956/1957 Ball, Gordon Ball, Gordon, ed. Allen Verbatim: Lecture on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness. New York: McGrall- Hill, 1974. PS 3513. I74 A69 Baraka, Amiri See Jones, LeRoi Beat Generation & other Avant-garde Writers, The Santa Barbara, CA: Anacapa Books, 1970. PS228 .B6 B43 1970z Beatitude Anthology San Francisco: City Lights, 1960. PS 536 .B38 Berlowitz, Leslie Berlowitz, Leslie, and Rick Beard. Greenwich Village: Culture and Counterculture New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991. F 128.68 .G8 G74 Big Table (volumes 1-5) Chicago: Big Table, Inc., 1959-60 AP 2 .B48 Black, D.M Black, D.M. A Dozen Short Poems London: Turret Books, 1968. PR 6052 .L27 D6 Blazek Douglas Blazek Douglas. Ole Anthology: the best poetry as selected from all eight v olumes of Ole magazine Glendale, Calif. : Poetry X/change, 1967. [numbered 9/5000, inscribed by ed.] PS615. O54 1967 Brossard, Chandler Brossard, Chandler, ed. The Scene Before You: A New Approach to American Culture New York: Rinehart and Co., 1955. E 169.1 .B817 Brown, Bob Brown, Bob Globe-Gliding Diessen: Roving Eye Press, 1930 PS 3502 .R8283 G66 1930 Brown, Bob 1450-1950 New York: Jargon Books and Corinth Books, 1959 PS 3505 .R8283 F6 Buckley, Lord Richard Buckley, Lord Richard Hiparama of the Classics San Francisco: City Lights, 1960. PS 3552. U243 H5 Burns, Jim Burns, Jim Beats, Bohemians and Intellectuals Nottingham : Trent Editions, 2000. PS228.P67 B87 2000 Burroughs, William (see also Nuttal, Jeff) Burroughs, William Jr. Speed New York: Olympia, 1970. PS 3552 .U752 S64 1984 Burroughs, William Jr. Kentucky Ham New York: E.P. Dutton, 1973. PS 3552 .U749 K46 Burroughs, William Blade Runner: A Movie Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind, 1979. PS 3552 .U75 B55 Burroughs, William Gysin, Brion. Brion Gysin Let the Mice In West Grover, VT: Something Else Press, 1973. PS 3557 .Y8 B7 Burroughs, William Cities of the Red Night New York: Holt, 1981. PS 3552 .U75 D63 Burroughs, William Doctor Benway Santa Barbara, CA: Bradford Morrow, 1979. PS 3552 .U75 D63 Burroughs, William Electronic Revolution. Bonn: Expanded Media Editions, 1994. PS3552.U75 E4 1994 Burroughs, William Exterminator! New York: Viking, 1973. PS 3552 .U75 E75 1973 Burroughs, William Interzone New York: Viking, 1989. PS 3552 .U75 I5 1989 Burroughs, William Letters to Allen Ginsburg, 1953-1957. New York: Full Court, 1982. PS 3552 .U75 Z49 1982 Burroughs, William Port of Saints London: Covent Garden, 1975. PS 3552 .U75 P6 1983 Burroughs, William Queer New York: Viking Press, 1985. PS 3552 .U75 Q8 1985 Burroughs, William The Job NY: Penguin Books, 1974. PS 3552 .U75 Z467 1989 Burroughs, William The Last Words of Dutch Schultz: A Fiction in the Form of a Film Script London: Cape, 1970. PN 1997 .L345 1981 Burroughs, William The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959 New York: Viking, 1993. PS 3552 .U75 Z48 1993 Burroughs, William The Place of Dead Roads New York: Holt, 1984. PS 3552 .U75 P54 1983 Burroughs, William The Seven Deadly Sins New York: Loco Mulder 1992 PS 3552 .U75 S48 1001 Burroughs, William The Western Lands New York: Viking Press, 1987. PS 3552 .U75 W47 1987 Burroughs, William The Yage Letters (with Allen Ginsberg) San Francisco: City Lights, 1963. PS 3552 .U75 Y3 Cassady, Carolyn Cassady, Carolyn Off the Road New York: William Morrow, 1990. PS 3521 .E735 Z594 1990 c.2 Cassady, Neal Cassady, Neal The First Third and Other Writings San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1971. CT 275 .C3458 A3 Charters, Ann Charters, Ann Beats and Company New York: Doubleday, 1986. PS 228 .B6 C48 1986 Cherkovski, Neeli Cherkovski, Neeli Ferlinghetti: A Biography Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1979. PS 3511 .E557 Z6 Chicago Review (volumes 9-14; 36-45) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. AP 2. C5 152 Circle nine Berkeley, CA: Circle, c1946. PS3537 .S819 A5c City Lights Anthology San Francisco: City Lights, 1974. PN 6014 .F47 City Lights Review. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence and Nancy J. Peters, eds. City Lights Review 1. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1987. PN6010.5 .C58 v.1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence and Nancy J. Peters, eds. City Lights Review 2. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1988. PN6010.5 .C58 v.2 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence and Nancy J. Peters, eds. City Lights Review 3. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1989. PN6010.5 .C58 v.3 Peters, Nancy J. and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, eds. City Lights Review 4. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1990. PN6010.5 .C58 v.4 Peters, Nancy J., ed. War After War. City Lights Review 5. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1992. PN6010.5 .C58 v.5 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, ed. Ends and Beginnings. City Lights Review 6. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1994 PN6010.5 .C58 v.6 Clark, Leonard Clark, Leonard English Morning and Other Poems London: Hutchinson, 1953. PR 6005 .L317 E5 c.2 Collins, Ronald K. L. Collins, Ronald K. L. and David M. Skover The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of an American Icon Naperville: Sourcebooks, 2002 KF 224 .B78 C65 2002 Contact (Volumes 4-6) Sausalito, CA: Angel Island, 1958. AP 2 .W5242 Cook, Bruce Cook, Bruce The Beat Generation New York: Scribner's, 1971. HQ 799.7 .C66 1971 Corso, Gregory Corso, Gregory Bomb San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1958. PS 3505 .0763 B6 1958 Corso, Gregory Earth Egg New York: Unmuzzled Ox, 1974. PS 3505 .0763 E37 Corso, Gregory Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit New York: New Directions, 1981. PS 3505 .0763 H4 1981 Corso, Gregory Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other Poems Cambridge, MA: Richard Brukenfeld, 1955. PS 3505 .0763 V4 1969 Creely, Robert Creely, Robert For Love Poems 1950-1960 NY: Scribner, 1962. PS 3505 .R43 F55 Creely, Robert The Island NY: Scribner, 1963. PS 3505 .R43 I8 Deitch, Gene Deitch, Gene The Cat NY: The Record Changer, 1948. ML111.5 .D4 Di Prima, Diane Di Prima, Diane Revolutionary Letters SanFrancisco: City Lights Books, 1971. PS 3507.168 R4 1979 Di Prima, Diane Memoirs of a Beatnik New York: Penguin Books, 1969. PS3507 .I68 M41998 Di Prima, Diane. Dinners and Nightmares. San Francisco: Last Gasp, 1998. PS3507.I68 D56 1998 Floating Bear, The New York: [s.n.], 1967. PS1 .F62 Holdings incl. no.3(1961), no.9(1961), no.12(1961)-no.13(1961), no.15(1961)- no.21(1962), no.23(1962), no.25(1962)-no.38(1971) The Floating Bear: A Newsletter: Numbers 1-37, 1961-1969. Ed. by Diane di Prima & LeRoi Jones. La Jolla, CA: Laurence McGilvery, 1973. PS1 .F62 Discovery 1-6 Pocket Books, 1955. PS1 .D47 Dissent (volumes 4, no.3 and 7, no.2) NY: Dissent Publications, Inc., 1954. HX1 .D58 Duryee, Mary Ballard Duryee, Mary Ballard Signs and Wonders Ireland: Dolmen Press, 1972. PS 3507 .U88 S53 1972 c.2 Dylan Thomas Yale Literary Magazine v. 122 no. 2 PR 6039 .H52 Z95 1954 Evergreen Review (v.1-22, 26-30) NY: Grove Press, 1957. AP 2 .E884 Everson, William (aka Brother Antoninus) Everson, William In the Fictive Wish [Berkeley, CA]: Oyez, 1967. PS3509 .V65 I5 Brother Antoninus The Rose of Solitude Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967. PS3501 .N77 R6 Everson, William The Tarantella Rose Santa Cruz, CA: Peter & Donna Thomas, 1995. PS3509 .V65 T37 1995 (shelved with Book Arts Collection) “Six poems written in 1972-74, originally intended for inclusion in a work entitled Eros and Thanatos, never published. See Pref.” Everson, William Tendril in the Mesh [San Francisco]: Cayucos Books, 1973. PS3509 .V65 T45 Brother Antoninus Who Is She That Looketh Forth as the Morning Santa Barbara, CA: Capricorn Press, 1972.PS3509 .V65 W45 Feied, Frederick Feied, Frederick No Pie in the Sky: The Hobo as American Cultural Hero in the Works of Jack London, John Dos Passos, and Jack Kerouac New York: Citadel Press, 1964. PS 3523 .O46 Z6235 Feldman, Gene Feldman, Gene, and Max Gartenberg, eds. Protest New York: Citadel, 1958. PS 536 .F45 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Lawrence After the Cries of the Birds San Francisco: City Lights, 1967. PS 3511 .E557 A69 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence An Eye on the World: Selected Poems London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1967. PS 3511 .E557 A17 1967 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Her New York: New Directions, 1960. PS 3511 .E557 H4 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Howl of the Censor San Carlos, CA: Nourse, [1961]. KF 224 .F4 E45 1961 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, and Nancy Joyce Peters Literary San Francisco: A Pictorial History from its Beginnings to the Present Day San Francisco: City Lights/ Harper and Row, 1980. PS 285 .S3 F4 1980 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Routines New York: New Directions, 1964. PS 3511 .E557 R6 Fielder, Leslie Fielder, Leslie An End to Innocence Boston: Beacon Press, 1955. E 169.1 .F5 Fiedler, Leslie A Waiting for the End New York: Stein and Day, 1964. PS 221 .F44 Fifties, The (third issue) Pine Island, MN: The Fifties PN 1010 .F5 Fisher, Stanley Fisher, Stanley, ed.
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