Introduction
- Christopher Maclaine: The San Francisco Scene
- Lawrence Jordan: Beat California
- ruth weiss and The Brink
- Ron Rice: Songs of Innocence and Experience
- Robert Frank: Daisies and Brothers
- Barbara Rubin: I Know That We Can Live Loving Together, Seeing, Feeling, Touching to the Highest Spheres
- Shirley Clarke: Rebel with a Cause
- William S. Burroughs: The Bankruptcy of the Reality Studio
- Joanne Kyger, Descartes and the Splendor of
Epilogue After Beat Film: Jim Morrison
Bibliography
Biography
David Stephen Calonne is the author of several books including William Saroyan: My Real Work Is Being; The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats; Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions; R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self; Jazz, Counterculture, and the Sacred; and biographies of Charles Bukowski and Henry Miller. He has also edited five volumes of uncollected prose by Bukowski for City Lights. Calonne has lectured internationally and taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan, and the University of Chicago. He presently teaches at Eastern Michigan University.
