Articles related to "Beat Generation"



Lew Welch: Biography
Brief biography of the poet and friend of Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder. Welch left a suicide note in 1971, then disappeared without a trace.
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The Beats, Bless 'em, Saluted in Book
Book describes lives of the Beat Generation, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
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The Making of A Counter-Culture, Part I: The Beat Generation
The Beats. Fathers (and mothers) of the flower children. If you compare the two groups, that would seem to be no surprise. But having done it nearly ten years before? How could something that happened in the early fifties affect the mid-sixties?
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Joyce Johnson's Minor Characters
Author Joyce Johnson's memoir about life with Jack Kerouac and beyond.
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Kerouac Revisited
A look back at the significance and the theory of Jack Kerouac's Spontaneous Prose
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How to start a poetry movement
Is there togetherness in art, and if so, how does one get there? This article offers an exploratory, some times humorous, account of the dynamics of creating, sustaining and surviving a poetry movement.
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