{"product_id":"9780872863798","title":"San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Beat\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiane di Prima, William Everson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Hirschman, Joanne Kyger, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Jack Micheline, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, Philip Whalen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\". . .as we begin to slip into a national slumber somewhat akin to that of the Eisenhower years, it’s exhilarating to have this squall line of Beats pass through our consciousness.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\". . .fierce engagement executed with humor and vernacular sensitivity.\" — Dale Smith, \u003ci\u003eAustin Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Meltzer (1937-2016) was the author of many books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eTens, The Name, Arrows: Selected Poetry 1957-1992,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTwo-Way Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e (City Lights). He was the editor of \u003ci\u003eBirth, The Secret Garden, Reading Jazz,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWriting Jazz,\u003c\/i\u003e among other collections. His agit-smut fictions include \u003ci\u003eThe Agency Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e. Meltzer read poetry at the Jazz Cellar in the 1950s and in the 1960s fronted the band, \"Serpent Power.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027597082864,"sku":"9780872863798","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780872863798_p0.jpg?v=1763840066","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780872863798","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}