New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. "Concisely told and full of fascinating detail, The Birth of the Beat Generation chronicles the life and times of the maverick poets and novelists William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, as well as the San Francisco Group, which included Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gary Snyder. It also evokes the figures surrounding them, including Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Herbert Huncke, and Peter..... More

New York, NY: Poetry in Review Foundation, 1982. First Printing. Softcover. "That poetry in America is treated with indifference and contempt, like minor actors buried at the bottom of a theatrical bill, is a melancholy and infuriating fact. But though essentially solitary, his audience tiny and scattered across the country, the American poet continues to make art out of the self and an intractable culture, then launches his book into..... More