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The moderns; an anthology of new writing in America,

Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher: New York, Corinth Books, 1963.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Short fiction by William Eastlake, Edward Dorn, Douglas Woolf, Paul Metcalf, John Rechy, Michael Rumaker, Robert Creeley, Fielding Dawson, Hubert Selby, Jr., Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, LeRoi Jones, Diane di Prima, and Russell Edson.
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Genre/Form: Literary collections
Anthologies
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 1934-
Moderns.
New York, Corinth Books, 1963
(OCoLC)592503952
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Amiri Baraka
OCLC Number: 4195488
Description: xvi, 351 p. 22 cm.
Contents: Introduction / by LeRoi Jones --
The first bomb ; Little Joe / William Eastlake. --
C.B. & Q. ; 1st Avenue ; Beauty / Edward Dorn --
Cougher ; Work in flight grounded / Douglas Woolf --
The doll ; Indian game / Paul Metcalf --
El Paso del Norte ; City of lost angels ; Chicago, savage city / John Rechy --
8 dreams ; Teddy bear ; Puppy / Michael Rumaker --
Mr. Blue ; The grace ; In the summer ; A death ; The dress ; The book / Robert Creeley --
Early in the morning ; Invisible glass ; Captain America ; Bloodstar / Fielding Dawson --
Another day, another dollar ; A penny for your thoughts / Hubert Selby, Jr. --
Seattle burlesque ; CITYCitycity ; Manhattan sketches / Jack Kerouac --
Vaudeville voices ; Berserk machine ; The ticket that exploded / William Burroughs --
The screamers ; Hypocrite(s) ; Thieves / LeRoi Jones --
Poet ; Some fool thing ; Visitors ; Southwest / Diane Di Prima --
Gulping's recital / Russell Edson --
Appedix: Uses of the unconscious / Michael Rumaker ; Preface to Gold diggers / Robert Creeley ; Essentials of spontaneous prose / Jack Kerouac ; Notes on Vaudeville voices, and The cup up method / William Burroughs.
Responsibility: edited with an introd. by LeRoi Jones.

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Short fiction by William Eastlake, Edward Dorn, Douglas Woolf, Paul Metcalf, John Rechy, Michael Rumaker, Robert Creeley, Fielding Dawson, Hubert Selby, Jr., Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, LeRoi Jones, Diane di Prima, and Russell Edson.

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