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| x Allen Ginsberg |
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Irwin Allen Ginsberg (pronounced /ˈɡɪnzbərɡ/; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. Ginsberg is best known for the poem "Howl" (1956), in which he celebrates fellow members of the Beat Generation and critiques what he saw as the...
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| x Gary Snyder |
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Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), as well as an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist (frequently described as the "poet laureate of Deep...
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| x Jack Kerouac |
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Jack Kerouac (pronounced /ˈkɛruːæk, ˈkɛrəwæk/; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American author, poet and painter. Alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Kerouac's work was very...
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| x William S. Burroughs |
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William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914(1914-02-05) – August 2, 1997; pronounced /ˈbʌroʊz/) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his...
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| x Neal Cassady |
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Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, perhaps best known for being characterized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road...
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| x Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best...
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| x Gregory Corso |
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Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs).
Corso's first volume of poetry The Vestal Lady on...
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| x John Clellon Holmes |
John Clellon Holmes (March 12, 1926 - March 30, 1988), born in Holyoke Massachusetts, was an author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel Go. Go is considered the first "Beat" novel, and depicted events in his life with friends Jack...
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| x Peter Orlovsky |
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Peter Orlovsky (born July 8, 1933 on the Lower East Side, New York City) is an American poet best known for his lifelong relationship with Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg.
Orlovsky was born to Russian parents named Oleg and Katharina Orlovsky in...
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| x Charles Plymell |
Charles Plymell (also known as Charlie Plymell) is originally from Belle Plain Kansas. He is often overlooked for his involvement as a Beat writer and poet.
In 1935, Charley Plymell's father took his family to Holcomb, Kansas, where Charley was born...
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| x Jerry Kamstra |
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Jerry Kamstra is an American author and poet. A member of the beat generation, he is most widely known for his novel "The Frisco Kid", which details his experience living in North Beach in the 1950s, at height of the beat movement.
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| x Howl |
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"Howl" is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg as part of his 1956 collection of poetry titled Howl and Other Poems. The poem is considered to be one of the principal works of the Beat Generation along with Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) and William...
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| x Naked Lunch |
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Naked Lunch (sometimes referred to as The Naked Lunch) is a novel by William S. Burroughs originally published in 1959.
The book was originally published with the title The Naked Lunch in Paris in July, 1959 by Olympia Press. Because of US obscenity...
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| x On the Road |
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On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957. It is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century...
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| x The Frisco Kid |
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| x Visions of Cody |
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Visions of Cody is a novel by Jack Kerouac, perhaps his most stylistically free and varied. It was written in 1951-1952, and though not published in its entirety until 1973, it had by then achieved an underground reputation. Since its first printing...
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| x Vanity of Duluoz |
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Vanity of Duluoz (full title Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46) is a 1968 semi-autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac (ISBN 0-14-023639-2). The book describes the adventures of Kerouac's alter ego, Jack Duluoz, covering the period...
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| x The Dharma Bums |
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The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The semi-fictional accounts in the novel are based upon events that occurred years after the events of On the Road. The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on...
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| x The Subterraneans |
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The Subterraneans is a 1958 novella by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. It is a semi-fictional account of his short romance with an African American woman named Alene Lee in New York in 1953. In the novel she is renamed "Mardou Fox," and...
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| x Tristessa |
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Tristessa is a novella by Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac set in Mexico City. It is based on his relationship with a Mexican prostitute (the title character). The woman's real name was Esperanza ("hope" in Spanish); Kerouac changed her name to...
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| x The Town and the City |
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The Town and the City is a novel by Jack Kerouac, published by Harcourt Brace in 1950. This was the first major work published by Kerouac, who later became famous for his second novel On the Road (1957). Like all of Jack Kerouac's major works, The...
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| x Desolation Angels |
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Desolation Angels, published in 1965, yet written years earlier around the time On the Road was in the process of publication, is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, which makes up part of his Duluoz Legend....
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| x And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks |
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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is a novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. It was written in 1945, a full decade before the two authors became famous as leading figures of the Beat Generation, and remained unpublished for many...
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| x Big Sur |
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Big Sur is a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac. It recounts the events surrounding Kerouac's (here known by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) three brief sojourns to a cabin in Bixby Canyon, Big Sur, owned by Kerouac's friend and Beat poet...
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| x Visions of Gerard |
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Visions of Gerard is a 1963 novel by American Beat writer Jack Kerouac. Unique among Kerouac's novels, Visions of Gerard focuses on the scenes and sensations of childhood as evidenced in the tragically short yet happy life of his older brother,...
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| x Maggie Cassidy |
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Maggie Cassidy is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, first published in 1959. It is a largely autobiographical work about Kerouac's early life in Lowell, Massachusetts from 1938 to 1939, and chronicles Kerouac's real-life relationship with...
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| x Doctor Sax |
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Doctor Sax (Doctor Sax: Faust Part Three) is a novel by Jack Kerouac published in 1959. Kerouac wrote it in 1952 while living with William S. Burroughs in Mexico City.
The novel begins with Jackie Duluoz, based on Kerouac himself, relating a dream...
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| x Satori in Paris |
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Satori in Paris is a 1966 novel by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. It is a short, semi-autobiographical tale of a man who travels to Paris, then Brittany, to research his genealogy. Kerouac relates his trip in a tumbledown fashion as a...
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| x Pic |
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Pic is a novel by Jack Kerouac, first published in 1971.
Pic is the story of a small child, Pictorial Review Jackson, from North Carolina. When his grandfather, with whom he lives, dies, his older brother appears and plucks him from the...
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| x Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings |
Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings is an anthology of American Beat writer Jack Kerouac's early work, published by Viking Press in 1991. It includes writings from Kerouac's high school years, poetry, short stories, essays and other...
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| x Mexico City Blues |
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Mexico City Blues is a poem published by Jack Kerouac in 1959 composed of 242 "choruses" or stanzas. In his own words, Kerouac wanted to be known as a jazz poet and with this book he sought to write in a way consistent with how a musician would play...
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| x Book of Dreams |
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A comprehensive dream journal published by Jack Kerouac in 1960 that covers all recorded dreams from 1952-1960. In it Kerouac tries to continue plot-lines with characters from his books as he sees them in his dreams. This book is stylistically wild,...
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| x Lonesome Traveler |
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Lonesome Traveler is a 1960 novel by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. It is a compilation of Kerouac's journal entries about traveling the United States, Mexico, Morocco, the United Kingdom and France, and covers similar issues to his...
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| x Orpheus Emerged |
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Orpheus Emerged is a novella written by Jack Kerouac in 1945 when he was at Columbia University; however it was not published until 2002 when it was discovered by his estate.
Orpheus Emerged chronicles the passions, conflicts, and dreams of a group...
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| x Beat Generation |
Beat Generation is a play written by Jack Kerouac upon returning home to Florida after his seminal work On the Road had been published in 1957. Gerald Nicosia, a Kerouac biographer and family friend has said that theatre producer Leo Gavin suggested...
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| x Book of Sketches |
The Book of Sketches is a collection of spontaneous prose written by Jack Kerouac between 1952 and 1957. In 1951, it was suggested to Kerouac by his friend Ed White that he "sketch in the streets like a painter but with words."[liner notes] Over the...
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| x Old Angel Midnight |
Old Angel Midnight is a long narrative poem by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. It was culled from five notebooks spanning from 1956 to 1959, while Kerouac was fully absorbed by his studies of Buddhism and Buddhist philosophy. Kerouac...
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| x Good Blonde & Others |
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Good Blonde & Others is a collection of works by Jack Kerouac. This collection includes shorter prose pieces, literary criticism, his essentials for spontaneous prose and is largely seen as a look into the non-fiction life of Beat Generation author...
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| x Scattered Poems |
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Scattered Poems is a collection of spontaneous poetry by Jack Kerouac. These poems were gathered from underground and ephemeral publications, as wells as from notebooks kept by the author. Some poems include: "San Francisco Blues," the variant texts...
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| x Hadda be Playin' on a Jukebox |
Hadda be Playin' on the Jukebox is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1975. It has been performed live (with music) by the band Rage Against the Machine, appearing on their album Live & Rare.
The poem frames various events of the sixties and...
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| x Plutonian Ode |
Plutonian Ode is a poem written by American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1978 against the arms race and nuclear armament of the superpowers. It is heavily inspired by Gnosticism which Ginsberg came to know after reading Hans Jonas's book on the...
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| x Kaddish |
Kaddish is a poem by Beat writer Allen Ginsberg about the death of his mother, Naomi, in 1956. It was begun in the Beat Hotel in Paris in December 1957, completed in New York in 1959, and published by City Lights Books in 1961 as the lead in the...
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| x The Yage Letters |
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The Yage Letters, first published in 1963, is a collection of correspondence and other writings by Beat Generation authors William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. It was issued by City Lights Books.
Most of the letters date back to 1953 and...
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| x Pull My Daisy |
"Pull My Daisy" is a poem by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady. It was written in the late 1940s in a similar way to the Surrealist “exquisite corpse” game, with one person writing the first line, the other writing the second, and so on...
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| x The Fall of America: Poems of These States |
A book of poetry by Allen Ginsberg, published by City Lights in 1973 for which Ginsberg won the National Book Award. It's characterized by a prophetic tone inspired by William Blake and Walt Whitman, as well as an objective view characterized by...
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| x Reality Sandwiches |
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Reality Sandwiches is a book of poetry by Allen Ginsberg published by City Lights Publishers in 1963. It came out between Ginsberg's two most important collections: Howl and Kaddish. Ginsberg was not ready yet to publish Kaddish, a poem he believed...
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| x Mind Breaths |
Mind Breaths is a book of poetry by Allen Ginsberg published by City Lights Publishers. It contains poems written by Ginsberg between 1972 and 1977. Some of these poems include:
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| x Planet News |
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Planet News is a book of poetry written by Allen Ginsberg and published by City Lights. It is number twenty three in the Pocket Poets series. It contains poems written by Ginsberg between 1961 and 1967, many written during his travels to India,...
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| x The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971 | ||
| x Programming by questionnaire | ||
