The Beat Generation Through Allen Ginsberg's Lens ... Ginsberg was joined by his pals Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady and Gregory Corso in in redefining the American story.

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In the spring of 1956, Allen Ginsberg was working as a merchant seaman on a ship that resupplied radar bases in the Arctic Circle. He wrote a letter to his friend Jack Kerouac, who was staying ...

In 1961, Kerouac predicted to poet and City Lights bookstore owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti that "someday 'The Letters of Allen Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac' will make America cry." That day has arrived ...

Compelling works like Kerouac’s 1957 novel “On the Road” and Ginsberg’s epic 1956 poem, ‘Howl’, enshrined the Beat Generation’s place in American literature.

In one of Allen Ginsberg’s more crazily virtuosic letters to his sometime soul mate Jack Kerouac, Ginsberg included an apology of sorts. “I was too intent on self-fulfillment, and rather crude ...

Carr told his friends William Burroughs and a 22-year-old Jack Kerouac about what had happened. None of them said anything to the police. Finally Carr confessed, and Kerouac went to prison.

Between the early 1950s and into the 1960s, the writer used a second-hand Kodak Retina camera to snap images of friends and fellow Beat Generation members like Jean Kerouac, William S. Burroughs ...

In 1959, Jack Kerouac, who coined the term “Beat Generation,” defined it thus: “members of the generation that came to age after World War II-Korean War who join in relaxation of social and ...

Forget William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, the true voice of the Beat Generation was Jack Kerouac. With his life and writing, he defined what this new era stood for.