The Portable Beat reader

pt. 1. "The best minds of a generation": East Coast beats

ch. 1. Jack Kerouac

ch. 2. Allen Ginsberg

ch. 3. William Burroughs

ch. 4. Herbert Huncke

ch. 5. John Clellon Holmes

ch. 6. Carl Solomon

ch. 7. Gregory Corso

pt. 2. "Heart beat": enter Neal Cassady

ch. 1. Neal Cassady

ch. 2. Jack Kerouac

ch. 3. Neal Cassady

ch. 4. Jack Kerouac

pt. 3. "Constantly risking absurdity": some San Francisco renaissance poets

ch. 1. Kenneth Rexroth

ch. 2. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

ch. 3. Michael McClure

ch. 4. Gary Snyder

ch. 5. Philip Whalen

ch. 6. Philip Lamantia

ch. 7. Lew Welch

ch. 8. Bob Kaufman

pt. 4. "A few blue words to the wise": other fellow travelers

ch. 1. Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)

ch. 2. Ray Bremser

ch. 3. Diane DiPrima

ch. 4. Bob Dylan

ch. 5. Brenda Frazer (Bonnie Bremser)

ch. 6. Tuli Kupferberg

ch. 7. Jack Micheline

ch. 8. Frank O'Hara

ch. 9. Peter Orlovsky

ch. 10. Ed Sanders

ch. 11. Anne Waldman

ch. 12. John Wieners

pt. 5. "Tales of Beatnik glory": memoirs and posthumous tributes

ch. 1. Charles Bukowski

ch. 2. William Burroughs, Jr.

ch. 3. Carolyn Cassady

ch. 4. Diane DiPrima

ch. 5. Brenda Frazer (Bonnie Bremser)

ch. 6. Brion Gysin

ch. 7. Joyce Johnson

ch. 8. Hettie Jones

ch. 9. Jan Kerouac

ch. 10. Ken Kesey

ch. 11. Michael McClure

ch. 12. Ed Sanders

pt. 6. "The unspeakable visions of the individual": later work

ch. 1. William Burroughs

ch. 2. Gregory Corso

ch. 3. Diane DiPrima

ch. 4. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

ch. 5. Allen Ginsberg

ch. 6. Michael McClure

ch. 7. Ed Sanders

ch. 8. Gary Snyder.