From “Philadelphia-Sigma subversion and insurrection” Center to Kingsley Hall: exploring the Laing-Trocchi-Berke connection
It should have been one of the most enduring countercultural unions of the century: Alex Trocchi,...
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Category: Essays
The Protests of Ginsberg and Di Prima as Marginalized Minorities
There is nothing more American than a protest, than questioning authority and rebelling in the...
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Allegories from the Cave: Burroughs and Trocchi – a Platonic Love
‘Demiurgos scowled, and with that Plato awoke. Or did he?’ Voltaire The drug experience has often...
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Virgules / After Cézanne
In his 1966 interview for The Paris Review, Ginsberg recounts his early preoccupation with...
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Snyder, Kerouac, and the Dharma
The worlds like an endlessfour-dimensionalGame of Go. Riprap, Gary Snyder “All these people,” said...
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Specificity: The Secret Brilliance of Hunter S. Thompson
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s protagonist, Nick Carraway, describes Jay Gatsby as...
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Reflections on Jack Kerouac’s Favorite Line in Shakespeare
While his student at Naropa Institute in 1977, I heard the poet Gregory Corso drunkenly inform...
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Insanity in Ginsberg’s and Epstein’s Howl from a Foucauldian Point of View
…the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad...
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Moving Towards the Light: the Triumph of Spirituality in the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg
‘Sunflower Sutra’ Ginsberg’s ‘Sunflower Sutra’ bursts with a range of vivid imagery, connecting...
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Allen’s Buddhism
The following is an excerpt from Jacob Rabinowitz’s new book, Blame it on Blake: a memoir of dead...
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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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