Of the most prominent, was Allen Ginsberg. ... This could be a reflection of Ginsberg in his own writing. ... Simply, Ginsberg implies that he and Garver are shooting up some drug-heroin, cocaine, or crystal meth-with words like "bloody cotton" and "cleaned needles." ... Garver was a young, subversive "issue" and that is what Ginsberg dreams about back upon the street. ... That section alone is eerie, for literature knows that these Beats-Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs-grew as the fathers of deeper thinking, and verbose social critique. ...

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Gary Snyder was one of the original Beat poets, and along with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Alan Watts helped to shape modern poetry and to fuel the cultural revolution of the 1960's. ... The other poets were Phillip Lamantia, Mike McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Phil Whalen, and Jack Kerouac who decided not to read. Six Gallery 6 POETS AT 6 GALLERY -------------------- Philip Lamantia reading mss. of late John Hoffman-- Mike McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder & Phil Whalen--all sharp new straightforward writing-- remarkable coll- ection of angels on one stage reading their po...

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Although Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs Brought their separate and cumulative madness to the beat generation, it was Kerouac who was the Unifying Principle."... This was in opposition to his friend and fellow beat Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg believed "in grasping after life as much as you can because of it's sweet sadness and because you would be dead someday"( Hipkiss,p.63). ...

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Although Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs Brought their separate and cumulative madness to the beat generation, it was Kerouac who was the Unifying Principle."... This was in opposition to his friend and fellow beat Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg believed "in grasping after life as much as you can because of it's sweet sadness and because you would be dead someday"( Hipkiss,p.63). ...

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"We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself," is a quote made famous by William Burroughs. He was from the East side circle of "The Beats" and lived a interesting and...

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The 1950's is known as a sterile, homogenized, consensus-driven society. This image, however, changed in the period of 1952 to 1966 when America experienced a shift in the social norms and civil unrest. Social norms between the suburban families and middle class families changed as well as stereoty...

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Allen Ginsberg once said, "You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden....

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