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Beat Poets: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Anne Waldman, Rod McKuen

Beat Poets: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Anne Waldman, Rod McKuen


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 175. Not illustrated. Chapters: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Anne Waldman, Rod Mckuen, Michael John Fles, Dick Mcbride, Bob Kaufman, Ken Nordine, Harry Fainlight, Lew Welch, John Ross, Lord Buckley, Philip Whalen, Lenore Kandel, Neeli Cherkovski, Ted Joans, Janine Pommy Vega, Bob Mcfadden, Babs Gonzales, Walt Curtis, A. D. Winans. Excerpt: Irwin Allen Ginsberg (pronounced; June 3, 1926 April 5, 1997) was an American poet who vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression. In the 1950s, Ginsberg was a leading figure of the Beat Generation, an anarchic group of young men and women who combined poetry, song, sex, wine and illicit drugs with passionate political ideas that championed personal freedoms. Major literary works of the Beat Generation include the novels On The Road by Jack Kerouac and Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, as well as Ginsberg's epic poem Howl, in which he celebrates his fellow "angelheaded hipsters" and excoriates what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. The poem, dedicated to writer Carl Solomon, has a memorable opening: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed bymadness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawnlooking for an angry fix... Howl made Ginsberg famous because of a 1957 obscenity trial in which a San Francisco prosecutor argued it contained "filthy, vulgar, obscene, and disgusting language." The poem seemed especially outrageous in 1950s America because it depicted both heterosexual and homosexual copulation at a time when sodomy laws made homosexual acts a crime in every U.S. state. Howl reflected Ginsberg's own bisexuality and his homosexual relationships with a number of men, including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong par...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781155327044
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 176
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 268 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155327047
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Anne Waldman, Rod McKuen
  • Width: 152 mm


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