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The Beats changed the course of American literary history. Who knows where we would be without “Howl,” “On the Road” and “Naked Lunch”? This book tells the story of their prodigiously messy lives and careers in comic book form with wonderful economy. Written by Harvey Pekar and five others and with chapters drawn by eleven different artists, it will be as grippingly entertaining for long-time fans of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs and all the rest, as it will be for the heretofore uninitiated. (Hill and Wang, $22)
NYT: 09 Holiday Gift Guide - Art and Architecture Books
Echo’s Bones, poem series by Samuel Beckett.
Via Sister
“Once, if I remember correctly, my life was a feast at which all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
One day I sat beauty on my knees - And I found her bitter, -And I reviled her!…”
Thus, 20 year old Arthur Rimbaud starts his revolutionary prose poem “A Season in Hell” shaking and leveling poetic foundations, -his words remaining as shocking today as they were in the late 19th century!
Rimbaud’s status has remained legendary and his influence runs through literature into the heart of the arts and out the mouth of Rock and Roll!
In this booklet, designed in the same style as Rimbaud’s 1873 self published edition, Patti Smith lends us her illustrations of Rimbaud, as well as a selection of photographs from the illustrious late Robert Mapplethorpe.
Via Morel Books
Your friends and mine, Messrs. Jansen and McClelland. Not to be missed
Really nice font.
