Coventry, England, UK: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This Early Summer 2015 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features a talk-based essay by Peter Anastas describing a visit to the great "Maximus" poet Charles Olson by none other than the Founding Father of the Beat Generation himself, Jack Kerouac, during October of 1968, the twilight of..... More

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. “Mexico features prominently in the literature and personal legends of the Beat writers, from its depiction as an extension of the American frontier in Jack Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’ to its role as a refuge for writers with criminal pasts like William S. Burroughs. Yet the story of Beat literature and Mexico takes us beyond the movement’s superstars to consider..... More