The best minds of my generation : a literary history of the Beats / Allen Ginsberg ; with a foreword by Anne Waldman ; edited by Bill Morgan.
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, author.; Waldman, Anne, 1945- writer of foreword.; Morgan, Bill, 1949- editor.
2017
PS228.B6 G56 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
The best minds of my generation : a literary history of the Beats / Allen Ginsberg ; with a foreword by Anne Waldman ; edited by Bill Morgan.
Author
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, author.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
ISBN
9780802126498 (hardcover)
0802126499 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Grove Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
xxviii, 460 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
PS228.B6 G56 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9/0054
Summary
"In the summer of 1977, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. This was twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem "Howl," and Jack Kerouac's seminal book On the Road. Through the creation of this course, which he ended up teaching five times, first at the Naropa Institute and later at Brooklyn College, Ginsberg saw an opportunity to make a record of the history of Beat Literature. Compiled and edited by renowned Beat scholar Bill Morgan, and with an introduction by Anne Waldman, The Best Minds of My Generation presents the lectures in edited form, complete with notes, and paints a portrait of the Beats as Ginsberg knew them: friends, confidantes, literary mentors, and fellow revolutionaries. Ginsberg was seminal to the creation of a public perception of Beat writers and knew all of the major figures personally, making him uniquely qualified to be the historian of the movement. In The Best Minds of My Generation, Ginsberg shares anecdotes of meeting Kerouac, Burroughs, and other writers for the first time, explains his own poetics, elucidates the importance of music to Beat writing, discusses visual influences and the cut-up method, and paints a portrait of a group who were leading a literary revolution. For academics and Beat neophytes alike, The Best Minds of My Generation is a personal and yet critical look at one of the most important literary movements of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Waldman, Anne, 1945- writer of foreword.
Morgan, Bill, 1949- editor.
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Foreword / by Anne Waldman
Editor's preface
A definition of the Beat Generation / by Allen Ginsberg
1. Course overview
2. Kerouac's "Origins of the Beat Generation"
3. Reading list
4. Visions
5. Jazz, bebop, and music
6. Music, Kerouac, Wyse, and Newman
7. Times Square and the 1940s
8. Carr, Ginsberg, and Kerouac at Columbia
9. Kerouac, Columbia, and Vanity of Duluoz
10. Lucian Carr's influence on Kerouac
11. Kerouac and Vanity of Duluoz, part 2
12. Meeting Burroughs and Ginsberg's suspension from Columbia
13. Kerouac and The Town and the City
14. Kerouac and Visions of Cody, part 1
15. Kerouac, Cassady, and Visions of Cody, part 2
16. Kerouac in old age
17. Burroughs's first writings and "Twilight's Last Gleamings"
18. Burroughs, Kerouac, and And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
19. Burroughs, Joan Burroughs, and Junkie
20. Burroughs and Korzybski
21. Burroughs and the visual
22. Burroughs and The Yage Letters
23. Burroughs and Queer
24. Burroughs and Naked Lunch
25. Burroughs and the cut-up method
26. Burroughs and The Ticket That Exploded
27. Neal Cassady and As Ever
28. Kerouac and the "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose"
29. Kerouac and On the Road
30. Kerouac and The Subterraneans
31. Jack Kerouac and fame
32. Kerouac, sketching, and method
33. Corso and The Vestal Lady on Brattle
34. Corso and Gasoline and Other Poems
35. Corso and The Birthday of Death
36. Corso and "Bomb"
37. Corso and "Power"
38. Corso and Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit
39. Ginsberg's early writings
40. Ginsberg and William Carlos Williams
41. Ginsberg and the "The Green Automobile"
42. Ginsberg and "Howl"
43. Ginsberg, "Howl," and Christopher Smart
44. Ginsberg and Cézanne
45. Ginsberg and the San Francisco renaissance
46. John Clellon Holmes
47. Peter Orlovsky
48. Carl Solomon
49. Kerouac's "Belief and Technique For Modern Prose"
Works cited within the text
Allen Ginsberg's reading list for "A Literary History of the Beat Generation".

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