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Queer Beats : how the Beats turned America on to sex
- Title
- Queer Beats : how the Beats turned America on to sex / edited by Regina Marler.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- San Francisco : Cleis Press, c2004.
- Description
- xxxvii, 209 p. ; 23 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0415/2004003828.html
- Other contributors
- Marler, Regina, 1964-
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references. Paperback.
- Contents
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- The road of excess (or, Saintly sinners). In society / Allen Ginsberg ; On meeting Kinsey / Herbert Huncke ; "Nobler, I thought, to die a man than live on, a sex monster ..." [from Queer] / William Burroughs ; Dead drunk / Alan Ansen ; Youth / Herbert Huncke ; "I don't mind being called queer ..." [from a letter to Allen Ginsberg, April 22, 1952] / William Burroughs ; "Burroughs may be gay, but he's a man ..." / Norman Mailer ; "We owed it to literary history ..." [from Palimpsest] / Gore Vidal ; "Norman wanted to know what had really happened ..." [from Palimpsest] / Gore Vidal ; "Something strange has happened ..." [from a journal entry, January 8, 1961] / Allen Ginsberg ; "I sit naked in my room remembering ..." [from a journal entry, June 17, 1951] / Allen Ginsberg ; "It was a strange, nondescript kind of orgy ..." / Diane Di Prima.
- Male muses (or, Sex without borders). "Oh, I love, love, love women!" [from On the road] / Jack Kerouac ; "I'm on a spree tonight ..." [from a letter to Allen Ginsberg, April 10, 1947] / Neal Cassady ; "Love is not controllable ..." [from a letter to Carolyn Cassady, June 1952] / Allen Ginsberg ; Bradley the buyer [from Naked lunch] / William Burroughs ; "Posterity will laugh at me ..." [from a letter to Neal Cassady, October 3, 1948] / Jack Kerouac ; Love poem on theme by Whitman / Allen Ginsberg ; Teacher- Your body, my Kabbalah / Elise Cowen ; "Accept my soul with all its throbbings and sweetness ..." [from an interview in Gay Sunshine] / Allen Ginsberg and Allen Young ; "If like me you renounce love and the world ..." [from a letter to Ginsberg, January 18, 1955] / Jack Kerouac ; Malest cornifici tuo catullo / Allen Ginsberg ; from Howl / Allen Ginsberg ; "I find myself getting jealous of Kiki ..." [from a letter to Jack Kerouac, August 18, 1954] / William Burroughs ; The Newport News has arrived in Venice for a week's stay ..." / Alan Ansen ; A.J.'s annual party [from Naked lunch] / William Burroughs ; from Cut-ups: a project for disastrous success / Brion Gysin ; "I met Jack Kerouac in 1958 for one glorious moment ..." / John Giorno ; A poem for cocksuckers / John Wieners ; from Memoirs of a bastard angel / Harold Norse.
- Queer shoulder to the wheel. Me & Allen / Peter Orlovsky ; Peter jerking Allen off (First sex experiment) / Peter Orlovsky ; Why is God love, Jack? / Allen Ginsberg ; Sexual conditioning / William Burroughs ; Sweet boy, gimme yr ass / Allen Ginsberg ; Going to Massachusetts / Jane Bowles ; Horns / Harold Norse ; from The place of dead roads / William Burroughs ; Pages from Cold point / Paul Bowles ; Green ballet / Harold Norse ; Hi risque / John Giorno ; On Neal's ashes / Allen Ginsberg ; "Sex as a biological weapon" / William Burroughs ; Rain-wet asphalt heat, garbage curbed cans overflowing / Allen Ginsberg ; Now France / Harold Norse ; "Drag up your soul to its proper bliss ..." [from an interview in the Paris review, 1965] / Allen Ginsberg ; "The gay state" [from Howard Brookner's 1984 film William Burroughs] / William Burroughs.
- Kinsey subjects
- Homosexuality in literature--United States. Countercultures--United States. Writers. Erotica.
- ISBN
- 1573441880 (pbk.) 9781573441889 (pbk.)