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The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats
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Overview
Ginsberg was seminal to the creation of a public perception of Beat writers and knew all of the major figures personally, making him uniquely qualified to be the historian of the movement. In The Best Minds of My Generation, Ginsberg shares anecdotes of meeting Kerouac, Burroughs, and other writers for the first time, explains his own poetics, elucidates the importance of music to Beat writing, discusses visual influences and the cut-up method, and paints a portrait of a group who were leading a literary revolution. For Beat aficionados and neophytes alike, The Best Minds of My Generation is a personal yet critical look at one of the most important literary movements of the twentieth century.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780802127983 |
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Publisher: | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Publication date: | 04/17/2018 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 496 |
Sales rank: | 984,144 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d) |
About the Author
Bill Morgan has written and edited thirty-nine books, including I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg.
Anne Waldman is an internationally acclaimed poet, scholar, and activist. She is the author of more than 40 books, including Fast Speaking Woman, Vow to Poetry, and Helping the Dreamer. She is a recipient of the American Book Award’s Lifetime Achievement and the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award. She divides her time between New York City and Boulder, Colorado.
Table of Contents
Foreword Anne Waldman ix
Editor's Preface xix
A Definition of the Beat Generation Allen Ginsberg 1
1 Course Overview 7
2 Kerouac's "Origins of the Beat Generation" 12
3 Reading List 23
4 Visions 25
5 Jazz, Bebop, and Music 31
6 Music, Kerouac, Wyse, and Newman 33
7 Times Square and the 1940s 43
8 Carr, Ginsberg, and Kerouac at Columbia 53
9 Kerouac, Columbia, and Vanity of Duluoz 60
10 Lucien Carr's Influence on Kerouac 77
11 Kerouac and Vanity of Duluoz, Part 2 80
12 Meeting Burroughs and Ginsberg's Suspension from Columbia 85
13 Kerouac and The Town and the City 91
14 Kerouac and Visions of Cody, Part 1 105
15 Kerouac, Cassady, and Visions of Cody, Part 2 118
16 Kerouac in Old Age 134
17 Burroughs's First Writings and "Twilights Last Gleamings" 139
18 Burroughs, Kerouac, and And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks 151
19 Burroughs, Joan Burroughs, and Junkie 158
20 Burroughs and Korzybski 177
21 Burroughs and the Visual 179
22 Burroughs and The Yage Letters 181
23 Burroughs and Queer 189
24 Burroughs and Naked Lunch 193
25 Burroughs and the Cut-Up Method 196
26 Burroughs and The Ticket That Exploded 202
27 Neal Cassady and As Ever 206
28 Kerouac and the "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" 219
29 Kerouac and On the Road 223
30 Kerouac and The Subterraneans 257
31 Jack Kerouac and Fame 260
32 Kerouac, Sketching, and Method 264
33 Corso and The Vestal Lady on Brattle 273
34 Corso and Gasoline and Other Poems 293
35 Corso and The Happy Birthday of Death 305
36 Corso and "Bomb" 311
37 Corso and "Power" 321
38 Corso and Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit 339
39 Ginsberg's Early Writings 343
40 Ginsberg and William Carlos Williams 359
41 Ginsberg and "The Green Automobile" 371
42 Ginsberg and "Howl" 390
43 Ginsberg, "Howl," and Christopher Smart 399
44 Ginsberg and Cézanne 408
45 Ginsberg and the San Francisco Renaissance 410
46 John Clellon Holmes 413
47 Peter Orlovsky 422
48 Carl Solomon 425
49 Kerouac's "Belief and Technique for Modern Prose" 429
Works Cited Within the Text 437
Allen Ginsberg's Reading List for "A Literary History of the Beat Generation" 441
Acknowledgments 445
Notes 447
Credits 457