Beat Spirit
This is it...as close as you can get to the Beat movement. A totally interactive, entertaining, and mind-altering volume of Beat recreation.
"To truly understand the Beat spirit," says Mel Ash, "you must be Beat, in the same way that you cannot know what an orange tastes like from simply reading about it." In Beat Spirit, Generation Xers, Boomer yuppies, and today's new Beats of all ages will find amusing doings, creative experiments, and subversive activities inspired by the great Beat geniuses. You'll discover immortality and invisibility with William Burroughs (see "Live Forever" and "Becoming Invisible"), learn to talk like the animals with Michael McClure (see "Animal Talk"), master the fine art of going sane with Jack Kerouac (see "Sea Sounds"), and create your own Beat autobiography with the author. Join the company of Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Alan Watts, Diane DiPrima, and their heirs.
An emotional, cerebral, and maybe even bodily experience, this book is your orange. Take a bite. Taste the Beat spirit and feed the rebellious, nonconformist, fiercely independent streak that lives within you. Let the juice of the Beats run down your chin.
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