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Various (Ansen, Alan; Bowles, Jane; Bowles, Paul; Burroughs, William S.; Cassady, Neal; Cowen, Elise; Di Prima, Diane; Ginsberg, Allen; Giorno, John; Gysin, Brion; Huncke, Herbert; Norse, Harold; Orlovsky, Peter; Wieners, John)

Queer Beats: How the Beats Turned America On to Sex (Selected Writings)

Berkeley, CA: Cleis Press, 2004. First Printing. Softcover. “Blasting through the crew-cuts and conformism of their day, the Beat writers were queer in the fullest sense of the word: their fluid sexuality challenged all sexual and romantic conventions. Most shocking of their unconventional attitudes was their embrace of same-sex eroticism. At a time when gay people were considered mentally ill or criminal, the Beats celebrated spontaneity and freedom in thought..... More

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Various (Quasha, George (Editor); Blackburn, Paul; Cage, John; di Prima, Diane; Kelly, Robert; Eshleman, Clayton; Giorno, John; Hollo, Anselm; Mac Low, Jackson; Mottram, Eric; Olson, Charles; Padgett, Ron; Quasha, Susan; Rothenberg, Jerome; Waldman, Anne et al.)

Active Anthology

Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. "I see the anthology as an opportunity to get out of the view of poetry as merely the aggregate of private talents. To see the field of poetic acts is to experience its interconnectivity in the present. One almost sees the movement of consciousness in its process of regeneration, which may be another way of saying what (Ezra) Pound called Paideuma..... More

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