From Fitzgerald’s Green Light to Thompson’s Wave
Hunter S. Thompson is one of those literary figures who, like the Beat Generation writers, divides...
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‘The Personal is Political’[1]
The moves of Beat women to reclaim bodily freedom and space through performative poetry ‘The...
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Allen Ginsberg in Asia
Asia had long been a source of inspiration and fascination for Allen Ginsberg by the time he...
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Mechanics And Poetics: William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg
William Carlos Williams played an important part in making “Howl” a well-known poem, especially in...
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The Mystery of Allen’s Ginsberg’s “Reading Bai Juyi”
On December 5th, 1984, while laid up sick in Shanghai, Allen Ginsberg wrote one of his...
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The Intersection of Buddhism and the Beat Generation
The 1950s in America was not a period known for its religious diversity. The spiritual consumerism...
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“A Fleeting Moment in a Floating World”: The Women of the Beat Generation Through Allen Ginsberg’s Eyes
“The whole Beat scene had very little to do with the participation of women as artists themselves....
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4 Important Travel Destinations for the Beat Generation
The Beats were, in many ways, an international literary movement. Although in defining the Beat...
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Allen Ginsberg and the FBI (and Secret Service)
In 1965 Allen Ginsberg flew to Cuba as part of a major poetry event hosted by the Casa de las...
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Beat Generation and How They Defined the Pop Culture in the Years to Come
The Beat Generation was born out of protest against conformism and amid desperate searches for...
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Cool Cats: Beat Poets and their Feline Friends
For some reason, if you look back through literary history, it seems most great authors had a...
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What the Beats can teach us about writing
The Beat Generation was not just important as a countercultural movement. We don’t just remember...
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