364 pages
English language
Published 2001 by City Lights Books.
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"San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment is a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s, was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and enterprise, opting instead for a life of personal, spiritual, and artistic adventure.
In these intimate, free-wheeling conversations, a baker's dozen of the poets of San Francisco talk about, the scene then and now, the traditions of poetry, and about anarchism, globalism, Zen, the Bomb, the Kabbalah, and the Internet."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
- American poetry -- California -- San Francisco -- History and criticism.
- Poets, American -- Homes and haunts -- California -- San Francisco.
- Beat generation -- California -- San Francisco.
- Poets, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.
- Beat generation -- Interviews.
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- In literature.