Beat poets

From Poems of Madness ("City Madness") / Ray Bremser

Hello ; From Ode to Coit Tower ; From Transformation & Escape ; I Am 25 ; Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway ; Away One Year ; After Reading "In the Clearing" ; Writ on the Eve of My 32nd Birthday ; Second Night in N.Y.C. After 3 Years / Gregory Corso

"Trust yourself

but not too far" / Elise Cowen

Chasing the Bird ; The Dishonest Mailmen ; I Know a Man ; The End ; The Hill ; The Rain ; For Love / Robert Creeley

Revolutionary Letter #1 ; Poem in Praise of My Husband (Taos); The Quarrel ; April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa ; Poetics / Diane di Prima

#9 ("Truth is not the secret of a few") ; #13 ("It was a face which darkness could kill") ; #22 ("Crazy to be alive in such a strange world") ; #39 ("A blockage in the bowel") / Lawrence Ferlinghetti

From Howl ; "Back on Times Square, Dreaming of Times Square" ; My Alba ; Song ; Malest Cornifici Tuo Catullo ; Tears ; From Kaddish ; A Supermarket in California ; Sunflower Sutra ; From America / Allen Ginsberg

Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher ; Sunday Evening / Barbara Guest

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note ; Sex, like desire ; War Poem ; Political Poem / LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)

Enlightenment Poem ; Blues for Sister Sally ; Junk/Angel / Lenore Kandel

Benediction ; West Coast Sounds-1956 ; Fragment ; Ginsberg (for Allen) ; Abomunist Manifesto / Bob Kaufman

Mexican Loneliness ; How to Meditate ; A Sudden Sketch Poem ; Hymn ; From Mexico City Blues / Jack Kerouac

"I dreamed of a bum seven foot tall"; "My muse goosed me" / Tuli Kupferberg

"It is lonely" ; "My father died this spring" ; May 29 ; "It's a great day" / Joanne Kyger

From Hypodermic Light ; High ; "Man is in pain" / Philip Lamantia

The Gypsy's Window ; The Flight ; The Marriage ; The Marriage (II) ; Poem from Manhattan / Denise Levertov

A Vacancy / Joanna McClure

The Flowers of Politics (I) ; The Flowers of Politics (II) ; Mad Sonnet 13 / Michael McClure

From the Untitled Epic Poem ; 6th Raga: For Bob Alexander ; 15th Raga: For Bela Lugosi / David Meltzer

Picasso Visits Braque ; I Would Not Recommend Love ; "I Have Always Liked George Gershwin More than Ernest Hemingway" ; I Have Seen the Light and It Is My Mind ; Hotel Nirvana / Harold Norse

Personal Poem ; Autobiographia Literaria ; Today ; My Heart ; Avenue A ; Now That I Am in Madrid and Can Think ; Having a Coke With You / Frank O'Hara

Peter's Jealous of Allen ; "Writing poems is a Saintly thing" ; Some One Liked Me When I Was Twelve ; Collaboration: Letter to Charlie Chaplin / Peter Orlovsky

Take My Disproportionate Desire ; Matins & Lauds ; Communion of Saints: The Poor Bastard Under the Bridge ; Easter Saturday, NY, NY ; Rockefeller the Center / Marie Ponsot

Migration of Birds ; A Sinecure for P. Whalen ; Under the Skin of It ; August on Sourdough, a Visit from Dick Brewer / Gary Snyder

How the Sestina (Yawn) Works ; Revolution ; Diaries ; The Blue That Reminds Me of the Boat When She Left / Anne Waldman

"Whenever I make a new poem" ; "I know a man's supposed to have his hair cut short" / Lew Welch

For C. ; 20:vii:58, On Which I Renounce the Notion of Social Responsibility ; Prose Take-Out, Portland, 13:ix:58 ; Something Nice About Myself ; True Confessions / Philip Whalen

A Poem for Tea Heads ; From A Poem for Painters ; A Poem for the Insane / John Wieners

Letters, encounters, & statements on poetics / [from] Donald Allen, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank O'Hara, Peter Orlovsky.