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15 Cards in this Set
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Main 4 Beats
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Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsburg and William Burroughs
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mailer said what
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Mailer raises, for the first time the idea that Negroes are the source of hip for beats.
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The Psychic state of youth-post WWII
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It was about the bland selling out of the “good life”
It was about political retrenchment It was about a conservative laisse faire attitude It was about nuclear anxiety |
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The "New Vision"
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1. Naked self-expression is the seed of creativity
2. The artist’s consciousness is expanded by a derangement of the senses 3. Art eludes conventional morality All meeting each other The concepts here are important Say what’s on your mind…and primitive raw nature..find this…get down to the nakedness of the spirit where there is nothing else there Artists senses must be expanded at all costs (like Melville)….we need to push our consciousness as far as we possibly can…only if we get to the borderline of insanity…living on the edge isn’t good enough…you gotta step off..only at this point you can be at your create zenith Art shouldn’t be polite…nobody has the right to say if something art or not…conventional reality is perverse |
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THAT IS WHAT GINSBERG AND KEROUAC WERE ALL
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REACHING THE BEDROCK OF CONSCIOUSNESS, WHICH IS THE ONLY PLACE THAT TRUE ART CAN EXIST, AND THE ONLY PLACE WHERE NOTHING BUT YOUR INNER SELF EXISTS.
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Hunke enters
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While looking to dispose of some morphine syrettes and a submachine gun, William Burroughs stumbles onto Herbert Huncke, a then-New York street character, petty thief and junkie and later moderately successful internationally known author. Burroughs tries morphine for his first time at this same meeting.
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First magazine article of the Beats by Mildred Brady
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1) These newcomers are a different crowd
2) Different than the Lost Generation because “it is decidedly unlike young bohemia to turn hermit or to take it upon itself the disciplined demands of self-sufficiency 3) Their poetry readings are solemn occasions 4) Poetry transcends logic and invades the realm where unreason reigns and where relations between ideas are sympathetic and mysterious. 5) Their lifestyle is a combination of anarchism and certain concepts related to psychoanalysis which yield together a philosophy in which one must: A) abandon the church, state, and family B) offer sex as a source of individual salvation in a collective world that’s going to hell. |
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who first uses term of beat generation
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Kerouac
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First Beat book
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Go by John Clellon Holmes
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Ferlinghetti opens City Light
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America's first paperback bookstore
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3 main ideas of Buddhism
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1) Impermanence
2) There is no creator or savior… you have to save yourself 3) The way of the Bodhisattva: peace, love, patience, generosity Michael McClure is a traditional figure between Beats and hippies because old enough for beats Kerouac wants Buddhism to free him from the guilt of catholicism Nothing lasts..the bedrock of Buddhist philosophy…all suffering is from attachment to things because we think all those things will always be there, and then we lose things we attached to You gotta do it for yourself…nobody or nothing will come along and save you and take you to heaven..you are totally responsible to life and what comes after that |
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Howl
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At a poetry reading at San Francisco's Six Gallery, (arranged by Allen and moderated by Kenneth Rexroth), Allen reads parts of "Howl" for the first time. Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen also read. Lawrence Ferlinghetti telegrams Allen: “I greet you at the beginning of a great career. When do I get the Manuscript
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The ______ NY Times Book review began to pay attention to what was happening in the literary world with an article on
The San Francisco Scene. |
1956
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Kenneth Rexroth
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In addition to being a writer, translator, essayist, and philosopher, Rexroth also helped found the San Francisco Poetry Center
Rexroth became a prolific painter and poet by the age of 17. He soon gained a reputation by associating with various labor groups and political anarchists. He became involved in the Beat movement attempting to elevate common consciousness, He was later given the title “Godfather of the Beats” because of his involvement with the readings and events at the Cellar jazz club. America (becoming) a convergence of interest - the business community, military imperialism, political reaction, tear and mud-drenched guilt of the ex-Stalinist American intellectuals” He believed, therefore, that a generation had developed that had a new respect for jazz, anarchy (though not political anarchy) and various writers. |
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Burrough's factualism
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“All arguments, all nonsensical condemnations as to what people ‘should do’ are irrelevant.”
“Ultimately there is only fact on all levels, and the more one argues, verbalizes, moralizes, the less he will see and feel of fact… Talk is incompatible with factualism” Factualism is important! Being able to do something without having to worry about if somebody is telling you that you should or should not do it When trying to describe what thinking, the best I can do is come up with a linguistic metaphor of what feeling…I can’t implant exactly what I am experiencing, and have to hope that the metaphor is as accurate as can make it |
