Baby Beat Generation

Poetry. THE BABY BEATS is a bilingual anthology of American poets translated into French poet Mathias de Breyne, and featuring a preface by Thomas Rain Crowe. This anthology looks back into the past and speaks for the present as well as predicts the future in relation to the 1970s 2nd San Francisco Renaissance--featuring the next generation of poets in the Beat tradition (the "Baby Beats") alongside their Beat counterparts as they appeared in the pages of Beatitude and other Northern California indie magazines. The exciting, if unheralded, Bay Area literary scene of the 1970s is fully documented in pictures and poems with an attached CD which includes readings by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane di Prima, Bob Kaufman, Jack Hirschman, Jack Micheline, Cole Swensen, Ken Wainio, Thomas Rain Crowe and others.