Mexico City Blues

10 best books like Mexico City Blues (Jack Kerouac): Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle, Go, Ring of Bone: Collected Poems, 1950-1971, Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems, The Back Country, These are My Rivers: New Selected Poems 1955-1993, Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation, Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster, Reality Sandwiches

Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle

Author	Gregory Corso
ISBN	0872860884

A good collection from one of the more undervalued Beat poets. Corso has strong merits, but his work comes across as darker and more pessimistic than others, and does not speak to me in the way that Ferlinghetti does or (to a lesser extent) Ginsberg. Much as "Howl" was in many ways Ginsberg's defining poem,...

Go

Author	John Clellon Holmes
ISBN	0141188391

The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neil Cassady. Published two months before Kerouac began On the Road, Go is the first and most accurate chronicle of the private lives the Beats lived before they became public figures....

Ring of Bone: Collected Poems, 1950-1971

Author	Lew Welch
ISBN	0912516038

DIFFICULTY ALONG THE WAY

Seeking Perfect Total Enlightenment
is looking for a flashlight
when all you need the flashlight for
is to find your flashlight



..the following, a last stanza from poem: ["He Finally Reaches The City"]

Is this, then, the
Mystical...

Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems

Author	Diane di Prima
ISBN	0872862372

"Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous bohemian, classically educated and twentieth-century radical, her writing, informed by Buddhist equanimity, is exemplary in imagist, political and mystical modes....

The Back Country

Author	Gary Snyder
ISBN	0811201945

This collection is made up of four sections: "Far West"—poems of the Western mountain country where, as a young man. Gary Snyder worked as a logger and forest ranger; "Far East"—poems written between 1956 and 1964 in Japan where he studied Zen at the monastery in Kyoto; "Kali"—poems inspired...

These are My Rivers: New Selected Poems 1955-1993

Author	Lawrence Ferlinghetti
ISBN	0811212734

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "one of our ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist), has gathered here four decades of poetry in his inimitable everyman’s voice, including more than fifty pages of new work. The tone has deepened over the years, and he may now be seen as a true maestro in his field. Behind...

Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation

Author	Carole Tonkinson
ISBN	1573225010

This book has turned me on to Philip Whalen who I previously thought of as a marginal Beat writer. It has also given me a little bit more of an understanding, though I was already aware, of the Buddhist influence on Jack Keroauc, Allen Ginsberg and especially Gary Snyder's work.

Whalen was a good...

Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac

Author	Barry Gifford
ISBN	1560257393

Here, in what has become a classic of its kind since its publication in 1978, is the fascinating story of Jack Kerouac, "King of the Beats" and American literary legend, recorded through the voices of his friends and lovers. Authors Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee retraced Kerouac's life at home and on...

Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster

Author	Steve Turner
ISBN	0670870382

Forty years after the publication of On the Road Kerouac has won the critical recognition he long deserved, inspiring passionate interest from a new generation of readers. This lively, visual biography highlights Kerouac's impact on the 1950s and 1960s and tracks his relentless devotion to his work,...

Reality Sandwiches

Author	Allen Ginsberg
ISBN	0872860213

"Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages for yr own joy." Many of Ginsberg's most famous poems.

Wake-up nightmares in Lower East Side, musings in public library, across the U.S. in dream auto, drunk in old Havana, brooding in Mayan ruins, sex daydreams on the West Coast, airplane...

Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats

Author	Barry Miles
ISBN	0805060448

More than forty years after the publication of On the Road, Jack Kerouac is more widely read and revered by a new generation than ever before. Why this is so is the subject of Barry Miles's fresh and revealing portrait of the writer who is the acknowledged leader of the Beats, the group of writers that included...