San Francisco Beat is an essential remembrance of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. In these intimate, free-wheeling conversations, a barker's dozen of the poets of San Francisco talk about the scene and now, the traditions of poetrym and about anarchism, globalism, Zen, the bomb, the Kabbalah, and the Internet." Recent interviews include Dian Di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joanne Kyger, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Jack Micheline, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen as well as David Meltzer himself. Historic interviews include Lew Welch, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, and William Everson. Paperback 379 page.
