Edited by Stanley Fisher, who also contributes twenty definitions of what he considers "Beat" to mean, including:
Criminal without a crime | Just nowhere
Playing double or nothing with God
Playing safe
Includes poems by the usual suspects & Beat Legends -- Ginsberg, Corso, Orlovsky, Le Roi Jones, Diane DiPrima, Jack Kerouac -- but also their milieux in NY. That means Ray Bremser, Howard Hart, Stephen Tropp, and Daisy Alden. Norman Mailer essay on Picasso too, and a couple of very cool poems by Hugh Romney, aka Wavy Gravy.
Check out reproduction of NO!art paintings by Boris Lurie.