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The portable sixties reader
Publisher
Penguin Books
Publication Date
2003
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English
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From the Book
The Sixties: A Chronology
Pt. 1. Struggling to be Free: The Civil Rights Movement
"The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King" / James Baldwin
"Letter from a Birmingham Jail" / Martin Luther King, Jr.
from Rosa Parks: My Story / Rosa Parks
from Coming of Age in Mississippi / Anne Moody
"Where Is the Voice Coming From?" / Eudora Welty
"The March" / Calvin Trillin
"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" / Bob Dylan
"Ballad of Birmingham" / Dudley Randall
"For the Union Dead" / Robert Lowell
"The Ballot or the Bullet" / Malcolm X
"The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?" / Alice Walker
from Dreamer / Charles Johnson
Pt. 2. End it! And End it Now! The Anti-Vietnam War Movement
"Original Child Bomb" / Thomas Merton
"What's Happening in America (1966)" / Susan Sontag
"Life at War"
"Overheard over S.E. Asia" / Denise Levertov
"The Teeth Mother Naked at Last" / Robert Bly
"Let Sleeping Dogs Lie" / David Lance Goines
"How to Maintain a Peaceful Demonstration" / Ann Charters
from The Armies of the Night: "A Confrontation by the River" / Norman Mailer
from "On the Perimeter" / Robert Chatain
from Dispatches / Michael Herr
"The Man I Killed" / Tim O'Brien
from Born on the Fourth of July / Ron Kovic
"Attack the Water" / Janice Mirikitani
"Tunnels"
"Hanoi Hannah"
"'You and I Are Disappearing'"
"2527th Birthday of the Buddha"
"Prisoners"
"Nude Interrogation"
"Facing It" / Yusef Komunyakaa
Pt. 3. Why Can We Not Begin New? The Free Speech Movement and Beyond
"Battle of Berkeley Talking Blues" / Dave Mandel
"Put My Name Down" / Lee Felsenstein
"Hey Mr. Newsman" / Richard Kampf
"There's a Man Taking Names" / Dan Paik
"I Walked Out in Berkeley" /
Richard Schmorleitz and Dan Paik
from The Free Speech Movement
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"The Rules of the Game ... When You're Busted"
"Wanted: Hip Cops" / David Lance Goines
"Demonstration or Spectacle As Example, As Communication - or How to Make a March/Spectacle" / Allen Ginsberg
from Hell's Angels: "The Dope Cabala and a Wall of Fire" / Hunter Thompson
"Testament for My Students, 1968-1969" / Kay Boyle
"Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon: A Sixties Memoir" / Andrew Gordon
"The Police Band" / Donald Barthelme
"Che's Last Letter" / Abbie Hoffman
"The Coming of the Purple Better One" / William S. Burroughs
"Yeats in the Gas" / Edward Sanders
Pt. 4. "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die": The Counterculture Movement
"I Feel Like I'm Fixin'-to-Die Rag"
"Talking Non-Violence"
"Superbird"
"Janis" / Country Joe McDonald
"THE little PHENOMENA" / Douglas Blazek
from Ringolevio / Emmett Grogan
"A Minstrel Show or: Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel" /
R. G. Davis
"Psychedelic Rock Posters: History, Ideas, and Art" / Sally Tomlinson
"The Rolling Stones - At Play in the Apocalypse" / Michael Lydon
"New Speedway Boogie" / Robert Hunter
"Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at Woodstock" / Sherman Alexie
Pt. 5. Adrift in the Age of Aquarius: Drugs and the Movement Into Inner Space
"Turning On the World" / Timothy Leary
"The Holidays at Millbrook - 1966" / Diane di Prima
from The Teachings of Don Juan / Carlos Castaneda
from House Made of Dawn / N. Scott Momaday
"Letters from Mexico" / Ken Kesey
"Pills and Shit: The Drug Scene" / Lenny Bruce
from The Basketball Diaries / Jim Carroll
Pt. 6. Living in the Revolution: The Beats and Some Other Literary Movements at the Edge
"The Hustings" / Charles Olson
Letters to Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky, 1961-1962 / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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"Kral Majales" / Allen Ginsberg
"Revolutionary Letters #1, 3, 5, 8" / Diane di Prima
"Poke Hole Fishing After the March" / Gary Snyder
from Ghost Tantras / Michael McClure
"Grandfather Was Queer, Too" / Bob Kaufman
"Visitor: Jack Kerouac in Old Saybrook" / John Clellon Holmes
"The Cleveland Wrecking Yard" / Richard Brautigan
from Notes of a Dirty Old Man / Charles Bukowski
Pt. 7. Out of the Fire: The Black Arts Movement and the Reshaping of Black Consciousness
"The Black Arts Movement" / Larry Neal
from Think Black 1965-1967 / Don L. Lee
"Malcolm Spoke/who listened?" / Haki R. Madhubuti
"The Idea of Ancestry" / Etheridge Knight
"Conjugal Visits"
"A Dance for Ma Rainey" / Al Young
"My Poem" / Nikki Giovanni
"It Is Deep" / Carolyn M. Rodgers
"Numbers, Letters" / Amiri Baraka
"Eldridge Cleaver - Writer" / Ishmael Reed
from Soul on Ice /
Eldridge Cleaver
"Song"
"Why They Are in Europe?"
["We Knew Our Loneliness and Told It"] / Allen Polite
Pt. 8. With Our Arms Upraised: The Women's Movement and the Sexual Revolution
from The Feminine Mystique / Betty Friedan
from Sexual Politics / Kate Millett
"Poem" / Muriel Rukeyser
"Lady Lazarus" / Sylvia Plath
"The Abortion"
"The Addict"
"The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator" / Anne Sexton
"About Marriage"
"The Mutes" / Denise Levertov
"Belly Dancer"
"Ringless" / Diane Wakoski
from How I Became Hettie Jones / Hettie Jones
from SCUM Manifesto / Valerie Solanas
"A New Egalitarian Life Style" / Gloria Steinem
Pt. 9. In Defense of the Earth: The Environmental Movement
from Silent Spring / Rachel Carson
from Wildlife in America / Peter Matthiessen
"Revolutionary Letter #16" / Diane di Prima
"What You Should Know to Be a Poet"
"Revolution in the Revolution in the Revolution"
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"Smokey the Bear Sutra" / Gary Snyder
"Preface To Hermit Poems, The Bath"
["I Know a Man's Supposed to Have His Hair Cut Short"]
["Apparently Wasps"]
["I Burn Up the Deer in My Body"]
["Whenever I Make a New Poem"]
["Step Out onto the Planet"]
"The Song Mt. Tamalpais Sings" / Lew Welch
"To the Unseeable Animal" / Wendell Berry
"The Serpents of Paradise" / Edward Abbey
from The Way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday
Pt. 10. Ten Elegies for the Sixties
for Ernest Hemingway
"Hemingway" / Archibald MacLeish
for Marilyn Monroe
from Ghost Tantras, #39 / Michael McClure
for John F. Kennedy
"Kennedy Blues" / Eric Von Schmidt
for Sylvia Plath
from The Dream Songs, #172 / John Berryman
for Malcolm X
"The Sun Came" / Etheridge Knight
for Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Assassination" / Don L. Lee
for Robert F. Kennedy
"Assassination Raga" / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
for Neal Cassady
"On Neal's Ashes" / Allen Ginsberg
for Janis Joplin
"Elegy" / Marilyn Hacker
for Jack Kerouac
"Kerouac, 1922-1969" / The Harvard Crimson.
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