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From “Philadelphia-Sigma subversion and insurrection” Center to Kingsley Hall: exploring the Laing-Trocchi-Berke connection

by Martin Levy | Mar 21, 2020 | Essays | 0 |

It should have been one of the most enduring countercultural unions of the century: Alex Trocchi,...

The Protests of Ginsberg and Di Prima as Marginalized Minorities

by Lauren Mottel | Mar 13, 2020 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |

There is nothing more American than a protest, than questioning authority and rebelling in the...

Allegories from the Cave: Burroughs and Trocchi – a Platonic Love

by Cal Barlow | Mar 5, 2020 | Essays | 3 |

‘Demiurgos scowled, and with that Plato awoke. Or did he?’ Voltaire The drug experience has often...

Virgules / After Cézanne

by Connor McDonald | Jan 20, 2020 | Beatdom #19, Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |

In his 1966 interview for The Paris Review, Ginsberg recounts his early preoccupation with...

Snyder, Kerouac, and the Dharma

by Simon Scott | Oct 4, 2019 | Beatdom #19, Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |

The worlds like an endlessfour-dimensionalGame of Go. Riprap, Gary Snyder “All these people,” said...

Specificity: The Secret Brilliance of Hunter S. Thompson

by David S. Wills | Sep 24, 2019 | Essays | 0 |

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s protagonist, Nick Carraway, describes Jay Gatsby as...

Reflections on Jack Kerouac’s Favorite Line in Shakespeare

by Kirby Olson | Aug 24, 2019 | Essays | 0 |

While his student at Naropa Institute in 1977, I heard the poet Gregory Corso drunkenly inform...

Insanity in Ginsberg’s and Epstein’s Howl from a Foucauldian Point of View

by Türkü Naz Altınay | Aug 19, 2019 | Beatdom #19, Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |

…the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad...

Moving Towards the Light: the Triumph of Spirituality in the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg

by Jessica Clark | Jul 10, 2019 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |

‘Sunflower Sutra’ Ginsberg’s ‘Sunflower Sutra’ bursts with a range of vivid imagery, connecting...

Allen’s Buddhism

by Jacob Rabinowitz | Jun 22, 2019 | Essays | 0 |

The following is an excerpt from Jacob Rabinowitz’s new book, Blame it on Blake: a memoir of dead...

A Lady’s Choice: A reflection on Diane di Prima’s “Brass Furnace Going Out: Song, after an Abortion”

by Alyssa Dearborn | Apr 29, 2019 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |

Diane di Prima is a woman’s poet to the very core of her diction. She is not a woman’s poet simply...

The Great Writing Caper

by Michael Stutz | Apr 21, 2019 | Essays | 0 |

William S. Burroughs often suggested that one’s dreams are a valuable target for the writer...

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