"Jazz writers," such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, upheld their poetic ideals to the techniques of jazz musicians, such as rhythm, improvisation, and call and response. ... The importance of theGarner 4 oral tradition in poet Allen Ginsberg's mind leads him to emphasize the importance of sound; if a work can be sounded out in memory, then it has solidarity. ... Ginsberg is said "to be a gifted public reader and has read some of his poems to jazz accompaniment, as have Whalen and Kerouac" (Benets 3). ... Ginsberg reads his poetry like a mantra, often ending lines with a rising inton...

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He had several friends whom also participated in the group such as Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. ... Jack Kerouac and Allan Ginsberg were the best-known figures of the Beat Movement. ... "His friends loved the manuscript, and Ginsberg asked his Columbia professor to find a publisher-(Lit Kicks: Jack Kerouac). ...

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