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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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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Allen Ginsberg’s First Trip to Africa
On 12th September, 1947, Allen Ginsberg shipped out as a utility man on a collier, the S.S. John...
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Baraka, Transitions: The man and the poetry
Tenements absorbed the sun to brick and spread the heat like a steam iron, pressing ideas flat,...
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Turtle Island: An Eco-Critique of Capitalism
In the modern era the sustainability of both our daily lives and global systems has become an...
Read MoreThe Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg
To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the Six Gallery reading – at which Allen Ginsberg first read from his poem, “Howl” – Beatdom Books is delighted to announce the latest in its series of Beat...
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Sixty Years After the Six Gallery Reading
October 7th, 1955, was arguably one of the most important dates in American literature. On that...
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Review: Paul Bunyan, by Larry Beckett
Larry Beckett is generally best-known as a songwriter, yet probably better known to Beatdom...
Read MoreSaint Francis
“I love St. Francis of Assisi as well as anybody in the world.” Desolation Angels Once a sybarite...
Read MoreThe Kid from Red Bank
“Count Basie’s swing arrangements are not blaring, but they contain more drive, more power, and...
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The Beat Generation at War
From Beatdom #15 – Available now on Amazon as a print and Kindle publication: The...
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From Albion to Shangri-La
From Albion to Shangri-La consists of collected excerpts from Peter Doherty’s journals, circa 2008...
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