Dead Beats Series

GREGORY CORSO

True American Primitive Poet
1930-2001

Whole Earth Jamboree
Marin Headlands
1978

KEN KESEY

Novelist Visionary Fugitive Educator
Merry Prankster
1925-2001

speaking to students while a fugitive from the lawOakland
1966

PHILIP WHALEN

Beat Poet Zen Master
1923-2002

1965

FRANK REYNOLDS

Hell's Angel Arsonist Artist
1943-2003

2000

TED JOANS

Poet Musician Artist
1928-2003

Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965San Francisco
1995