Research Catalog

Title

The beats : a graphic history / text by Harvey Pekar et al. ; art by Ed Piskor et al. ; edited by Paul Buhle.

Author

Pekar, Harvey

Publication

New York : Hill and Wang, 2009.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Piskor, Ed
• Buhle, Paul, 1944-
• City Lights Books

Description

viii, 199 p. : chiefly ill., music; 24 cm.

Summary

"This revelatory and exhilarating and funny book not only tells us of the Beat generation, but of a time when we as individuals felt truly free. It is as fresh and pertinent as the latest scholarly history only far more entertaining"--Studs Terkel.

Subject

• Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 > Comic books, strips, etc
• Cassady, Neal > Comic books, strips, etc
• Cassady, Carolyn > Comic books, strips, etc
• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence > Comic books, strips, etc
• Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 > Comic books, strips, etc
• McClure, Michael > Comic books, strips, etc
• Di Prima, Diane > Comic books, strips, etc
• Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 > Comic books, strips, etc
• Snyder, Gary, 1930- > Comic books, strips, etc
• Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982 > Comic books, strips, etc
• Beats (Persons) > Comic books, strips, etc

Genre/Form

• Graphic novels
• Comics (Graphic works)
• Graphic novels.
• Comic books, strips, etc.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The beats : Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs. Jack Kerouac ; Allen Ginsberg ; William S. Burroughs / Harvey Pekar ; art by Ed Piskor -- The beats : perspectives. The San Francisco Poetry Renaissance ; Michael McClure ; Philip Whalen ; Between Rexroth and Gary Snyder in the Bay Area ; Robert Duncan ; Lawrence Ferlinghetti ; Gregory Corso ; LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka ; Charles Olson ; Robert Creeley / Harvey Pekar ; art by Ed Piskor -- City Lights and the Beats in San Francisco / Paul Buhle and Nancy J. Peters ; art by Jay Kinney -- Kenneth Patchen / Harvey Pekar and Nick Thorkelson ; art by Nick Thorkelson -- Lamantia / Nancy J. Peters and Penelope Rosemont ; art by Summer McClinton -- Gary Snyder / Harvey Pekar ; art by Peter Kuper -- Diane di Prima / Harvey Pekar and Mary Fleener ; art by Mary Fleener -- The janitor / story and art by Jerome Neukirch -- Beatnik chicks / Joyce Brabner ; art by Summer McClinton -- Jay DeFeo : the Rose / Trina Robbins ; art by Anne Timmons -- Art beats / story and art by Gary Dumm -- Jazz and poetry / Harvey Pekar ; art by Lance Tooks -- The harassment of d.a. levy / Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle ; art by Gary Dumm -- Tuli Kupferberg / Jeffrey Lewis and Tuli Kupferberg ; art by Jeffrey Lewis.

ISBN

• 9780809094967 (alk. paper)
• 0809094967 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008043350

OCLC

• 243544636
• SCSB-11909348

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library