Gavin Arthur’s Bohemian Life
I first learned of Gavin Arthur through his various Beat connections, but in fact his trip through...
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The (Un)Erotic Community of Bodies: From Walt Whitman to the Beats
Elisa Sabbadin, University College Cork, School of English, PhD Farid Ghadami, Univ Paris Est...
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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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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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Alt Lit as the New Beat Generation
“Do you think in five years the national media will create a stupid term like blogniks to describe...
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Dylan the (Secretly) Well Dressed
“You never seem to give yourself away completely, but of course dark-haired people are so...
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Many Loves
by Dr Madhu Mehrotra and Geetanjali Joshi Mishra “Resolved to sing no songs henceforth but those...
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Patti Smith and the Beats
“A hipster goes into a diner. ‘What kind of pie do you have?’ he asks. The waitress says, ‘The pie...
Read More“It was electric”: A conversation with Michael Sharp
By Noel Dávila On Ginsberg’s anger & kindness, Kerouac’s “homo viator”,...
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The Beat Generation and Travel
More so than any other literary movement, the Beats have influenced the world of travel and have...
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Walt Whitman and the Beats
It’s hard to read Kerouac or Ginsberg and not think of the father of American poetry, Walt...
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The Vagrant and American Literature
Exploring the link between vagrancy and the American identity.
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