Ballantine Books, 340 pages, paperback, OOP

I read most of this lengthy book over the past couple months. While I enjoyed the interviews with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Rexroth, I was surprised to find that Lew Welch‘s interview (and poems) stuck with me the most. I was vaguely aware of him because of Jack Kerouac; now I want to read more about and by him.

Richard Brautigan‘s section was too brief to be very meaningful, and I didn’t really care too much for the interviews with William Everson or Michael McClure. Still, this is a worthwhile book to check out, an interesting time capsule of West Coast poetry from the late ’60s/early ’70s.