A Lady’s Choice: A reflection on Diane di Prima’s “Brass Furnace Going Out: Song, after an Abortion”
Diane di Prima is a woman’s poet to the very core of her diction. She is not a woman’s poet simply...
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The Great Writing Caper
William S. Burroughs often suggested that one’s dreams are a valuable target for the writer...
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Little Women
I was only twenty in the fall of 1955 when I sat down to start my first novel. Come and Join the...
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William S. Burroughs and Music: An Interview with Casey Rae
In William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Casey Rae takes a look at the many ways in...
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An Excerpt from World Citizen
The following is a short excerpt from Part 2 of David S. Wills’ recent publication, World...
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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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Tyrannus Trump
For my birthday twin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti—I treasure the copy of your Tyrannus Nix? that you...
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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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