A report on Beat Generation
Literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.
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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
4 linksNovel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.
Novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.
It was written in 1945, a full decade before the two authors became famous as leading figures of the Beat Generation, and remained unpublished in complete form until 2008.
Gary Snyder
11 linksAmerican man of letters.
American man of letters.
In the 1950s, Snyder took part in the rise of a strand of Buddhist anarchism emerging from the Beat movement.
City Lights Bookstore
10 linksIndependent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.
Independent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.
In addition to books by Beat Generation authors, the press publishes literary work by such authors as Charles Bukowski, Georges Bataille, Rikki Ducornet, Paul Bowles, Sam Shepard, Andrei Voznesensky, Nathaniel Mackey, Alejandro Murguía, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ernesto Cardenal, Daisy Zamora, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Juan Goytisolo, Anne Waldman, André Breton, Kamau Daáood, Masha Tupitsyn, and Rebecca Brown.
Joanne Kyger
1 linksAmerican poet.
American poet.
The author of over 30 books of poetry and prose, Kyger was associated with the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation, Black Mountain, and the New York School.
Elise Cowen
2 linksAmerican poet.
American poet.
She was part of the Beat generation, and was close to Allen Ginsberg, one of the movement's leading figures.
Amiri Baraka
3 linksAmerican writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism.
American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism.
While he was stationed in Puerto Rico, he worked at the base library, which allowed him ample reading time, and it was here that, inspired by Beat poets back in America, he began to write poetry.
Janine Pommy Vega
2 linksJanine Pommy Vega (February 5, 1942 – December 23, 2010) was an American poet associated with the Beats.
The Subterraneans
2 linksThe Subterraneans is a 1958 novella by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac.
Philip Lamantia
5 linksAmerican poet and lecturer.
American poet and lecturer.
Lamantia was one of the post World War II poets now sometimes referred to as the San Francisco Renaissance, and later became involved with the San Francisco Beat Generation poets and the Surrealist Movement in the United States.
Greenwich Village
7 linksNeighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.
Neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.
In the 20th century, Greenwich Village was known as an artists' haven, the bohemian capital, the cradle of the modern LGBT movement, and the East Coast birthplace of both the Beat and '60s counterculture movements.