Writings from the Beat Generation
Edited by Anne Waldman
Foreword by Allen Ginsberg
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Table of Contents for The Beat Book

Foreword by Allen Ginsberg    xiii
Editor's Introduction   xix

GREGORY CORSO   1
       Sea Chanty   2
       The Last Gangster   2
       Amnesia in Memphis   3
       For Homer   3
       The Mad Yak   5
       Zizi's Lament    5
       I Held a Shelley Manuscript    6
       Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway    7
       Dream of a Baseball Star   8
       Spontaneous Requiem for the American Indian   9
       The Whole Mess . . . Almost   13
       Rembrandt—Self Portrait    15

JACK KEROUAC   16
       from Origins of the Beat Generation   17
       Buddha   18
       fromOn the Road   20
       fromMaggie Cassidy   30
       from Old Angel Midnight   36
       How to Meditate   41
       from Doctor Sax   42
       from Visions of Cody   48
       from Mexico City Blues   51
       from The Dharma Bums   53

NEAL CASSIDY   58
       Letter to Allen Ginsberg, May 15, 1951   59
       from The First Third   63

ALLEN GINSBERG   83
       The Blue Angel    84
       The Green Automobile   85
       Malest Cornifici Tuo Catullo   89
       from Howl   90
       from Kaddish   91
       At Apollinaire's Grave   94
       Describe: The Rain on Dasaswamedh Ghat   97
       Death News   99
       Kral Majales   100
       Wales Visitation   103
       Pentagon Exorcism   106
       On Neal's Ashes   107
       The Charnel Ground   107
       After Lalon   110

PETER ORLOVSKY   115
       Dream May 18, 1958   116
       Collaboration: Letter to Charlie Chaplin (with Allen Ginsberg)   117
       Dick Tracy's Yellow Hat   119
       Snail Poem   120
       I Dream of St. Francis   120

DIANE DI PRIMA   122
       Song for Baby-O, Unborn    123
       Short Note on the Sparseness of the Language    123
       The Practice of Magical Evocation    124
       Montezuma    125
       For the Dead Lecturer    125
       Poem in Praise of my Husband (Taos)    126
       Tassajara, 1969    127
       Fragmented Address to the FBI    128
       Letter to Jeanne (at Tassajara)    128
       American Indian Art: Form and Tradition    129
       To the Unnamed Buddhist Nun Who Burned Herself to Death on the Night of June 3, 1966    130
       Brief Wyoming Meditation    130
       I Fail as a Dharma Teacher    131
       Ave    132
       Abyss    135
       Death Sunyata Chant    136
       Rant    139

  JOHN WIENERS   143
       A poem for vipers    144
       A poem for museum goers    144
       A poem for the insane    147
       Act #2    149
       A Poem for Trapped Things    150
       A Poem for Painters    151
       My Mother    155
       The Acts of Youth   156
       With Meaning   157
       Children of the Working Class   159

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS   162
       My Legs Señor    163
       from Naked Lunch    164
       The Cut-up Method of Brion Gysin    182
       Cold Lost Marbles    185
       "What Washington? What Orders?"    186
        My Face    188
        from My Education    194

AMIRI BARAKA   199
       Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note   200
       State/meant   201
       from Cuba Libre   202
       In Memory of Radio   203
       Hymn for Lanie Poo   204
       Crow Jane   211
       from Wise/Whys/y's   214
       When Miles Split   223

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI   228
       Pound at Spoleto   229
       Ladakh Buddhess Biker   230
       Cro-Magnons   231
       Third World Calling   232
       Baseball Canto   233
       A River Still To Be Found   235
       from Work-in-Progress   236

JOANNE KYGER   238
       The Maze    239
       Pan as the Son of Penelope    242
       Caption for a Miniature    243
       from The Japan and India Journals    244
       October 29, Wednesday    255
       Philip Whalen's Hat    256
       "It's been a long time"   256
       "News bulletin from Keith Lampe"   257
       "Every day I burn a stick of incense"   258

LEW WELCH   260
       This Book Is for Magda   261
       Chicago Poem   262
       from Taxi Suite   264
       In Answer to a Question from P.W.   265
       The Empress Herself Served Tea to Su Tung-po   266
       Whenever I Make a New Poem   266
       He Thanks His Woodpile   267
       Sausalito Trash Prayer   268
       Song of the Turkey Buzzard   268
       The Image, As in a Hexagram   272
       I Saw Myself   273

LENORE KANDEL   274
       Poetry Is Never Compromise   275
       First They Slaughtered the Angels   278
       Spring 61   281

PHILIP WHALEN   284
       Further Notice   285
       Sourdough Mountain Lookout   285
       Hymnus Ad Patrem Sinensis   291
       Complaint: To the Muse   292
       "Never Apologize; Never Explain"   293
       Regalia in Immediate Demand!   294
       International Date Line, Monday/Monday 27:XI:67   294
       Walking beside the Kamogawa, Remembering Nansen and Fudo and Gary's Poem   295
       Chanson d'Outre Tombe   296
       from The Diamond Noodle   296

BOB KAUFMAN   302
       Blues Note   303
       Abomunist Manifesto   303

MICHAEL McCLURE   314
       from Dark Brown   315
       For the Death of 100 Whales   322
       fromPeyote Poem   323
       from Ghost Tantras   326
       Song: Vietnam   328
       Mad Sonnet: Fame   329
       Mad Sonnet: Grace   330
       Reading Frank O'Hara in a Mexican Rainstorm   330
       Senate Hearings   331

GARY SNYDER   333
       Milton by Firelight   334
       Hay for the Horses   335
       Cartagena   336
       from Cold Mountain Poems   337
       For a Far-out Friend   340
       For the Boy Who Was Dodger Point Lookout Fifteen Years Ago   341
       Four Poems for Robin   342
       Nansen   344
       For a Stone Girl at Sanchi   345
       Circumambulating Arunachala   346
       Through the Smoke Hole   346
       As for Poets   349
       No Shoes No Shirt No Service   350
       Old Woman Nature   351
       Building   352
       Word Basket Woman   353

A Literary Guide to Beat Places   355
Bibliography   366
Credits   374

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