Baraka, Transitions: The man and the poetry
Tenements absorbed the sun to brick and spread the heat like a steam iron, pressing ideas flat,...
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I’m Watching You Watching Me: The Inversion of the Gaze in Ginsberg’s Photographs
“You never look at me from the place from which I see you.” – Jacques Lacan Introduction: The...
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Echoes of the Revolution: Diane di Prima and the Beat Generation
This essay originally appeared in Beatdom #17: “We are in the middle of a...
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Defining Beat: Era, Location, and the Importance of Considering Women
The Beat Generation, though small in numbers, had a profound effect on the American...
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6 Places Where the Beats Hung Out
The world was a different place in post-war America. Suburbs were scant, malls were unheard of,...
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The Beats Gave Birth to Modern Hipsters
The generally accepted definition of the word “hipster” in 2017 is a young, non-traditional,...
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When was ‘Beat’ First Written?
On this blog, we’ve previously discussed the surprisingly difficult question of what the...
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Buddhists and Dharma Bums
Sometime in the early 1950s, the Beat Generation helped bring Buddhism to the West, or at least...
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