The Beat Generation: A Gale Critical Companion

Your reviewer for this title, who grew up together with “The Beat Generation” in the 1950s and 1960s, was ironically amused to note that project editor, Lynn M. Zott, was born in 1969, by which time Beat Poetry and art were no longer being produced. Despite her lack of personal experience of the era Ms Zott, and the Gale Critical Companion Advisory Board, have assembled a mass of written and illustrative material which was previously published in books and periodicals in the USA. The Gale Critical Companion series is aimed at the research requirements of upper secondary school and undergraduate...