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.
- Beat Generation101 related topics with Alpha
Ruth Weiss (beat poet)
0 linksPoet, performer, playwright and artist.
Poet, performer, playwright and artist.
She was considered to be a member of the Beat Generation, a label she, in later years, embraced.
Bob Dylan
7 linksAmerican singer-songwriter.
American singer-songwriter.
The first single, "Subterranean Homesick Blues", owed much to Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business"; its free-association lyrics described as harking back to the energy of beat poetry and as a forerunner of rap and hip-hop.
Kaddish (poem)
1 links"Kaddish" also known as "Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg (1894–1956)" is a poem by Beat writer Allen Ginsberg about his mother Naomi and her death on June 9, 1956.
Lew Welch
2 linksLewis Barrett Welch Jr. (August 16, 1926 – May 1971?) was an American poet associated with the Beat generation literary movement.
Janis Joplin
4 linksAmerican singer and musician.
American singer and musician.
Joplin cultivated a rebellious manner and styled herself partly after her female blues heroines and partly after the Beat poets.
Mill Valley, California
1 linksCity in Marin County, California, United States, located about 14 mi north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge and 52 mi from Napa Valley.
City in Marin County, California, United States, located about 14 mi north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge and 52 mi from Napa Valley.
In 1956, a group of Beat poets and writers lived briefly in the Perry house, most notably Jack Kerouac and San Francisco Renaissance Beat poet Gary Snyder.
William Carlos Williams
1 linksAmerican poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.
American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.
He had a significant influence on many of the American literary movements of the 1950s, including the Beat movement, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain school, and the New York School.
Thomas Wolfe
1 linksAmerican novelist of the early 20th century.
American novelist of the early 20th century.
Wolfe's influence extends to the writings of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac, and of authors Ray Bradbury and Philip Roth, among others.
Anne Waldman
3 linksAmerican poet.
American poet.
Although her work is sometimes connected to the Beat Generation, Waldman has never been, strictly speaking, a "Beat" poet.
Ted Joans
1 linksAmerican jazz poet, surrealist, trumpeter, and painter, who from the 1960s spent periods of time travelling in Europe and Africa.
American jazz poet, surrealist, trumpeter, and painter, who from the 1960s spent periods of time travelling in Europe and Africa.
He was a participant in the Beat Generation in Greenwich Village.