Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1984. First Softcover Edition. “From Kenneth Rexroth to the Czechoslovakian secret police, from Marianne Moore to the F.B.I., from Diana Trilling to Time magazine–Allen Ginsberg’s work has always drawn a spirited response. Now, for the first time, those responses–remarks, reviews, and essays–have been collected in a single volume. Beginning with William Carlos Williams’s early letters of support and ending with James Breslin’s biographical..... More

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990. First Printing. Hardcover. “In these critical essays Gregory Stephenson takes the reader on a journey through the literature of the Beat Generation: a journey encompassing that common ethos of Beat literature—the passage from darkness to light, from fragmented being toward wholeness, from Beat to Beatific. In his introduction, Stephenson provides a brief history of this literary and cultural phenomenon and establishes the basis..... More

Bristol, England: The Kerouac Connection, 1986. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “In early April 1951 Kerouac sat at his typewriter and hammered out, on a continuous roll of paper in a three week burst of energy, the fourth of what was to be five attempts at his ‘Road’ book, the work he had been attempting for more than two years. This scroll version of ‘On the Road’ has now attained legendary..... More