Beat Movement: Poetry and Broadsides
The Beat Movement broadsides and posters in this collection document the poetic and aesthetic revolution in literature and arts in the 1950s, challenging the repressive and even censorial nature of U.S. society. This significant collection chronicles the Beat Movement in American literature and history through primary sources including more than 5,000 little magazines, books, pamphlets, broadsides, flyers, posters, and other ephemera.