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by Spencer Kansa. I first met Herbert Huncke in the Spring of 1992, during a layover in New York, en route to visiting William Burroughs at his home in Lawrence, Kansas. Shortly after my Manhattan arrival, I received a phone call at my hotel... read more »
Thérèse Martin (1873-1897) was four years old when her mother died. She entered the Carmelite convent at Lisieux, France, at the age of fifteen and took the name Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face. (Thérèse’s five sisters... read more »
In Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 by Jack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson, Kerouac writes to Joyce, “It was a good thing you didn’t come back on the ship with me because it only went to big gas tank barges off Perth... read more »
by Chris Dickerson Certain cities belong to a few writers. They may not own the towns exclusively, but they’ve put their stamp on them so indelibly in their books and stories that anybody who writes about the places after them can’t... read more »
This paper is a short inquiry into the quality of Jack Kerouac’s poetry. Kerouac is an American writer who has maintained an enduring hold on succeeding generations of readers through his long prose works, such as On the Road and The Dharma... read more »
“You never seem to give yourself away completely, but of course dark-haired people are so mysterious.” Remark made by Lucien Carr to Jack Kerouac in Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters The black shirt with the white polka dots... read more »
Zen Buddhism is nearly impossible to write about. The use of words and logic to explain Zen are in opposition to its nature, one free of such restrictions. The question then arises: how can we know the principles of Zen if we can’t directly... read more »
“What are you rebelling against?” the local girl asks one of the “saintly motorcyclists” in the 1953 movie The Wild One, and Marlon Brando drawls, “Whaddaya got?” That’s a biography in brief of French poet Arthur Rimbaud, who... read more »
But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality … woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don’t understand history and the yearning of human... read more »
The notion of Burroughs as a farmer – even an inept one – may not sit right with readers of his work, or those familiar with the history of the Beats. Yet before he was William S. Burroughs the writer, he was Billy Burroughs the farmer,... read more »
Barbara Spalding:
What The Sea Gives
Down by the sea the
Beautiful grey-blue sea I
Will give y...
Rik:
Excellent poem. Thank you....
Jai:
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Great poem! Thanks.
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marie-francoise:
Hello Christina
I am sorry to hear about your health issues. I hope that trea...
gk stritch:
And the Hippos is quite engaging. Highly recommended for those compelled by the ...
