David Stephen Calonne

More than half a century of interviews with one of the most distinguished contemporary American poets

Collected interviews with one of the most famous American poets of the twentieth century

A thorough engagement with the literary, spiritual, and intellectual underpinnings of a great comics creator

The first book-length study of why the Beats were so fascinated by Mexico and how they represented its landscape, history, and mystical practices in their work, this volume examines such canonical figures as Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Lamantia, McClure, and Ferlinghetti, as well as lesser-known female Beat writers like Margaret Randall, Bonnie Bremser, and Joanne Kyger.

Collected interviews with the feminist Beat poet and cofounder of the Poets Press, known for her blended use of political and spiritual subject matter

Over forty years of interviews revealing the many contributions of this central personality in the evolution of the American counterculture