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10 best books like Myths Texts (Gary Snyder): Big Sur, Junky, The Dharma Bums, A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems, Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, Pictures of the Gone World, Cold Mountain: One Hundred Poems by the t'Ang Poet Han-Shan, Reality Sandwiches, San Francisco Blues

Big Sur
AuthorJack Kerouac
ISBN0140168125
"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half XX century,...
Junky
AuthorWilliam S. Burroughs
ISBN0142003166
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first novel. It is a candid eye-witness account of times and places that are now long gone, an unvarnished field report from the American post-war underground. Unafraid to portray himself in 1953 as a confirmed...
The Dharma Bums
AuthorJack Kerouac
Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and "yabyum" in San Francisco's Bohemia, to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Published just a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation...
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
AuthorLawrence Ferlinghetti
ISBN0811200418

This is one of the best-selling poetry books of all time, and, although that is no guarantee of poetic excellence—after all, Rod McKuen and Martin Farquar Tupper both sold a lot of books in their day—it is a sign that the author had his finger on the pulse of his time, that his work embodies the yearnings...
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle
AuthorGregory Corso
ISBN0872860884
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,...
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
AuthorWilliam S. Burroughs
ISBN0802118763
On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man named David Kammerer with a Boy Scout knife and threw his body in the Hudson River. For eight years, Kammerer had fawned over the younger Carr, but that night something happened: either Carr had had enough or...
Pictures of the Gone World
AuthorLawrence Ferlinghetti
ISBN0872863034
Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955.

It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The original edition contained the first twenty-seven...
Cold Mountain: One Hundred Poems by the t'Ang Poet Han-Shan
AuthorBurton Watson
ISBN0231034504
This collection is one of the earliest and most important works of Chinese Buddhist poetry and is especially influential in the later literature of the Zen Sect of Buddhism, which looked back to these poems as a classic of Zen literature. The poems cover a wide range of subjects: the conventional lament...
Reality Sandwiches
AuthorAllen Ginsberg
ISBN0872860213
"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...
San Francisco Blues
AuthorJack Kerouac
ISBN0146001184
Jack Kerouac is best known for his multi-volume Legend of Duluoz, which includes On the Road and The Dharma Bums, but he was also an important poet. One of the eight extended poems contained in Kerouac's Book of Blues (Penguin 1995), 'San Francisco Blues' is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness,...
Un roi sans divertissement
AuthorJean Giono
ISBN2070362205
"Le livre est parti parfaitement au hasard, sans aucun personnage. Le personnage était l'Arbre, le Hêtre. Le départ, brusquement, c'est la découverte d'un crime, d'un cadavre qui se trouva dans les branches de cet arbre. Il y a eu d'abord l'Arbre, puis la victime, nous avons commencé par un être...
Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems
AuthorStephanie Burt
ISBN0465094503
An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genre

In Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating...
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