2013 New Mexico Arizona Book Awards Finalist The "Backpack Trekker" travel journals are by one of America's endearing itinerant raconteurs and eccentric performance poets - Beatlick Joe Speer - lost in the 60's. Posthumously published, Beatlick Joe's thumbing on the road is given life with his endearing style, acute eye and wit, This is Jack Kerouac for the 21st Century dedicated to lovers of literature and cinema.