Ecstasy of the beats : on the road to understanding
Who were the beats? Not the sandle-clad "beatniks" of popular lore but dedicated writers, experimenters, skit improvisers, theorizers, hedonists, close friends, bisexual free lovers, shapers of the future. The beats hung out at Columbia university and cheap Times Square cafeterias, devouring ideas. David Creighton shows how the world has taken up their message. In Ecstasy of the Beats he gives a fresh portrait of Carolyn Cassady, "Queen of the Beats," and of the four major Beat writers. Jack Kerouac's On the Road gave a pattern of adventure to restless youth, Allen Ginsberg donned a prophet's r
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9781554881499, 9781459720466, 1554881498, 1459720466
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Acknowledgements; PROLOGUE: A ROAD TRIP, A ROAD TRIP!: Manhattan, 2007; 1: GO FOR BROKE: Bracknell, England, 2005; 2: PUT UP YOUR DUKES AND WRITE: New York City, 1940s; 3: RAGGED AND ECSTATIC JOY: Denver, 1940s; 4: A PLANK WHERE ALL THE ANGELS DOVE OFF: San Francisco, 1940s-1960s; 5: ROUGH AND HARD AND EXTREME: Mexico, 1950s-1960s; 6: NOT AKIN TO LUSTFUL THOUGHTS: Europe and Africa, 1950s-1960s; 7: THE PERFECT ECSTASY: Lowell, 1920s to Present; 8: GOLDEN ASH, BLISSFUL EMPTINESS: New England, 1890s-1960s; 9: IT WAS PURE, IN MY HEART: New Jersey and New York, 1920s-1990s
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010