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The Portable Beat Reader (Penguin Classics) (Reprint Edition) by Annn (Editor) Charters, Frances Fox Piven, Trans. Benedicta Ward Paperback, 688 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-10: 0-14-243753-0 / 0142437530 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-243753-7 / 9780142437537 Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. It was the junk-sick surrealism of William Burr |