The Unknown Beat Generation

Discover hidden gems of the Beat Generation with our curated list of lesser-known Beat books. Explore underground classics and forgotten works that shaped literary history.

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The First Third

by Neal Cassady

Autobiographical writing by the "hero" of Jack Kerouac's On the road.
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Lunch Poems

by Frank O'Hara

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often this poet, strolling …
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San Francisco Beat

by David Meltzer

"In these intimate, free-wheeling conversations, a baker's dozen of the poets of San Francisco talk about the scene then and now, the traditions of poetry, …
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On the Road

by Jack Kerouac

A reproduction of Kerouac's original 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road" offers insight into the writer's thematic vision and narrative voice as influenced by …
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