On 12th September, 1947, Allen Ginsberg shipped out as a utility man on a collier, the S.S. John Blair, for…
The Beat Movement scared the hell out of America. After all, the Beats were dirty, they were obscene, they…
Allen Ginsberg was a true citizen of the world, at home wherever he travelled. Although he never actually left the United…
“You never look at me from the place from which I see you.” – Jacques Lacan Introduction: The Photographs, The…
This essay originally appeared in Beatdom #17: “We are in the middle of a bloody, heartrending revolution /…
Later this month, Cambridge University Press is releasing The Cambridge Companion to the Beats, which features essays by Jonah Raskin, Regina Weinreich,…
On this blog, we've previously discussed the surprisingly difficult question of what the Beat Generation was, and later, what the…
This essay first appeared in Beatdom #17, which you can find on Amazon. As a child, Allen Ginsberg didn’t get…
There are so many books about the Beat Generation that focus on the writers’ roles as rebels and “literary outlaws,”…
The Beat Generation as a whole inhabits a polarized yet celebrated space in American literature. Writers like Jack Kerouac, Allen…
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