Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of politic…
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"The Beat Hotel has been closed for nearly forty years. But for a brief period - from just after the publication of Howl in 1957 until the building was sold in 1963 - it was home to Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, Peter Orlovsky, Harold Norse, and …
"The Beat Hotel has been closed for nearly forty years. But for a brief period - from just after the publication of Howl in 1957 until the building was sold in 1963 - it was home to Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, Peter Orlovsky, Harold Norse, and …
"The Beat Hotel has been closed for nearly forty years. But for a brief period - from just after the publication of Howl in 1957 until the building was sold in 1963 - it was home to Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, Peter Orlovsky, Harold Norse, and …
"The Beat Movement was and is a literary and arts movement, the most radical and innovative of the 20th century, and because it was so open to new ideas of poetics and aesthetics, it has adapted from decade to decade. The history of the Beat Movement is still being written in th…
"The Beat Movement was and is a literary and arts movement, the most radical and innovative of the 20th century, and because it was so open to new ideas of poetics and aesthetics, it has adapted from decade to decade. The history of the Beat Movement is still being written in th…
"The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes of American Poetry explores correspondences amongst the Beat Generation and Black Mountain writers, two of most well-known and influential groups of poets in the 1950s. These poets benefited from energetic correspondence with one another"
"The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes of American Poetry explores correspondences amongst the Beat Generation and Black Mountain writers, two of most well-known and influential groups of poets in the 1950s. These poets benefited from energetic correspondence with one another…
"The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes of American Poetry explores correspondences amongst the Beat Generation and Black Mountain writers, two of most well-known and influential groups of poets in the 1950s. These poets benefited from energetic correspondence with one another…
"The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes of American Poetry explores correspondences amongst the Beat Generation and Black Mountain writers, two of most well-known and influential groups of poets in the 1950s. These poets benefited from energetic correspondence with one another…
This book offers a radical new reading of the 1950s and 60s American literary counterculture. Associated nostalgically with freedom of expression, romanticism, humanist ideals and progressive politics, the period was steeped too in opposite ideas -- ideas that doubted human perf…
