The sixties : a chronology
pt. 1. Struggling to be free : the civil rights movement
The dangerous road before Martin Luther King / James Baldwin
Letter from a Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr.
from Rosa Parks : my story / Rosa Parks
from Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody
Where is the voice coming from? / Eudora Welty
The march / Calvin Trillin
The lonesome death of Hattie Carroll / Bob Dylan
Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall
For the Union dead / Robert Lowell
The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X
The civil rights movement : what good was it? / Alice Walker
from Dreamer / Charles Johnson
pt. 2. End it! And end it now! The anti-Vietnam War movement
Original child bomb / Thomas Merton
What's happening in America (1966) / Susan Sontag
Life at war ; Overheard over S.E. Asia / Denise Levertov
The teeth mother naked at last / Robert Bly
Let sleeping dogs lie / David Lance Goines
How to maintain a peaceful demonstration / Ann Charters
from The armies of the night : a confrontation by the river / Norman Mailer
from On the perimeter / Robert Chatain
from Dispatches / Michael Herr
The man I killed / Tim O'Brien
from Born on the fourth of July / Ron Kovic
Attach the water / Janice Mirikitani
Tunnels ; Hanoi Hannah ; You and I are disappearing ; 2527th birthday of the Buddha ; Prisoners ; Nude interrogation ; Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa.
pt. 3. Why can we not begin new? The free speech movement and beyond
Battle of Berkeley talking blues / Dave Mandel
Put my name down / Lee Felsenstein
Hey Mr. Newsman / Richard Kampf
There's a man taking names / Dan Paik
I walked out in Berkeley / Richard Schmorleitz, Dan Paik
from The free speech movement ; The rules of the game ... when you're busted ; Wanted : hip cops / David Lance Goines
Demonstration or spectacle as example, as communication
or how to make a march/spectacle / Allen Ginsberg
from Hell's Angels : the dope Cabala and a wall of fire / Hunter Thompson
Testament for my students, 1968-1969 / Kay Boyle
Smoking dope with Thomas Pynchon : a sixties memoir / Andrew Gordon
The police band / Donald Barthelme
Che's last letter / Abbie Hoffman
The coming of the purple better one / William S. Burroughs
Yeats in the gas / Edward Sanders
pt. 4. "I feel like I'm fixin' to die" : the counterculture movement
I feel like I'm fixin'-to-die Rag ; Talking non-violence ; Superbird ; Janis / Country Joe McDonald
THE little PHENOMENA / Douglas Blazek
from Ringolevio / Emmett Grogan
A minstrel shoe or : civil rights in a cracker barrel / R.G. Davis
Psychedelic rock posters : history, ideas, and art / Sally Tomlinson
at play in the apocalypse / Michael Lydon
New speedway boogie / Robert Hunter
Because my father always said he was the only Indian who saw Jimi Hendrix play 'The star-spangled banner' at Woodstock / Sherman Alexie.
pt. 5. Adrift in the age of Aquarius : drugs and the movement into inner space
Turning on the world / Timothy Leary
The holidays at Millbrook
from The teachings of Don Juan / Carlos Castaneda
from House made of dawn / N. Scott Momaday
Letters from Mexico / Ken Kesey
Pills and shit : the drug scene / Lenny Bruce
from The basketball diaries / Jim Carroll
pt. 6. Living in the revolution : the beats and some other literary movements at the edge
The hustings / Charles Olson
Letters to Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky, 1961-1962 / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Kral Majales / Allen Ginsberg
Revolutionary letters #1, 3, 5, 8 / Diane di Prima
Poke hole fishing after the march / Gary Snyder
from Ghost tantras / Michael McClure
Grandfather was queer, too / Bob Kaufman
Visitor : Jack Kerouac in old Saybrook / John Clellon Holmes
The Cleveland wrecking yard / Richard Brautigan
from Notes of a dirty old man / Charles Bukowski.
pt. 7. Out of the fire : the black arts movement and the reshaping of black consciousness
The black arts movement / Larry Neal
from Think black 1965-1967 / Don L. Lee
Malcolm spoke/who listened? / Haki R. Madhubuti
The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight
Conjugal visits ; A dance for Ma Rainey / Al Young
It is deep / Carolyn M. Rodgers
Numbers, letters / Amiri Baraka
from Soul on ice / Eldridge Cleaver
Song ; Why they are in Europe? ; [We knew our loneliness and told it] / Allen Polite
pt. 8. With our arms upraised : the women's movement and the sexual revolution
from The feminine mystique / Betty Friedan
from Sexual politics / Kate Millett
Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath
The abortion ; The addict ; The ballad of the lonely masturbator / Anne Sexton
About marriage ; The mutes / Denise Levertov
Belly Dancer ; Ringless / Diane Wakoski
from How I became Hettie Jones / Hettie Jones
from SCUM manifesto / Valerie Solanas
A new egalitarian life style / Gloria Steinem.
pt. 9. In defense of the earth : the environmental movement
from Silent spring / Rachel Carson
from Wildlife in America / Peter Matthiessen
Revolutionary letter #16 / Diane di Prima
What you should know to be a poet ; Revolution in the revolution in the revolution ; Smokey the Bear Sutra / Gary Snyder
Preface to Hermit poems, the bath ; [I know a man's supposed to have his hair cut short] ; [Apparently wasps] ; [I burn up the deer in my body] ; [Whenever I make a new poem] ; [Step out onto the planet] ; The song Mt. Tamalpais sings / Lew Welch
To the unseeable animal / Wendell Berry
The serpents of paradise / Edward Abbey
from The way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday
pt. 10. Ten elegies for the sixties
for Ernest Hemingway : Hemingway / Archibald MacLeish
for Marilyn Monroe : from Ghost tantras, #39 / Michael McClure
for John F. Kennedy : Kennedy blues / Eric Von Schmidt
for Sylvia Plath : from The dream songs, #172 / John Berryman
for Malcolm X : The sun came / Etheridge Knight
for Martin Luther King, Jr. : Assassination / Don L. Lee
for Robert F. Kennedy : Assassination raga / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
for Neal Cassady : On Neal's ashes / Allen Ginsberg
for Janis Joplin : Elegy / Marilyn Hacker
for Jack Kerouac : Kerouac, 1922-1969 / The Harvard Crimson
Alphabetical list of authors and titles.
