Eve's Garden of Books

The Poets http://www.citylights.com/  - Ferlinghetti outside City Lights Book Store & Publishing And The Beats Go On... Spent last summer and fall with Kerouac and friends, and what a wild trip it was from gritty New York to Denver (where Cassady's Dad is on the bum) to San Francisco (Ferlinghetti's City Lights open all hours), with stops in Chicago for jazz and New Orleans for some low down blues.  Across the Rio Grande a time or two and lost in Mexico.  Headed up PCH 1 for a rest in Big Sur and moved up to Salinas to sleep among the migrants and the stars, on a western beach under a cliff.  Later, in a surreal haze, a journey to Tangiers, with Burroughs, the mad genius, in search of the holy grail of opiates.  Then a flight of fancy back to Coney's boardwalk, where my father played as a boy.  I sat among drifters, hobos and wild men.  I saw my country through the eyes of a generation of children who ...