Allen Ginsberg

he is a gunsmith, working with guns is his profession. While his daughter is passionate about art. An example of this is that the father spent most of his time in the garage making rifle barrels while the daughter will stay in her room reading Allen Ginsberg…

the beat generation was a group of cultural libertinism from San Francisco that gained attention from New York writers. The beat generation gained notoriety in 1956 with the publication of Jack Kerwac “on the road” which was a formless novel and Allen Ginsberg, “Howl and Other Poems.” The 1960s in California emerged a new generation of contemporary American literary writers. The California writers focused on the literary style and “concerns of the beat generation, but also reflected their own…

During the Beat Generation, women began their long journey to finding their independence, identity, and their sexual freedom. Many Beat novels depicted women as either objects or women were treated with complete indifference. In terms of being an object during that time period, women had the pressure from the expected societal norm of becoming a housewife or just becoming another woman for sexual gratification. However, every woman has a different story or pathway to finding our who she is as,…

charges during a performance in 1965, Graham staged a benefit concert to raise money for their legal fees. The concert was a huge success with a line-up that featured rock, jazz, and poetry acts with performers that included Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, the Fugs, John Handy, and Jefferson Airplane. He organized two more successful benefit concerts and soon began producing regular concerts which included special lighting effects and lively psychedelic concert posters. Graham had finally…

focuses on the concept of fluidity, whether this is applied to sexuality, gender or bodily changes. Nelson’s memoir builds on quotations and ideas from a diverse array of authors, philosophers and artists, including Catherine Opie, Judith Butler, Allen Ginsberg and Roland Barthes, whose theoretical and critical ideas and concepts she applies to her own experiences and observations. By applying these theories and criticisms…

Mahin Rai Period 1 Mr. Westbrook 24 January 2018 Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Influence on Literature A poet, playwright, leader, publisher, activist, father and entrepreneur, Lawrence Ferlinghetti helped generate the literary movement: “Beat” in the 1950s. Like many others, he believed that literature should be available to all everyone. Despite, their education, wealth or heritage. He composed poetry to discuss taboos, political movement and to ponder “American idiom and modern jazz.” (Lawrence…

United States. The sensational reaction further convinced Capitol Records to push the release date forward. On December 26, 1963, “I Want to Hold Your Hand” was released in the United States (Gould, 212). The reaction was phenomenal. American poet Allen Ginsberg recalls the first time hearing the…

America was once described as baseball and apple pie. The Cold War forced Americans to choose the status quo of traditional American life or to face a new modernized age. The United States being a superpower in the Cold War locked horns with the very powerful Soviet Union over which form of economic and political system was best. The struggle for power in both countries was fought with espionage, nuclear deterrent, propaganda and a space race. The Cold War had formed a new frontier of changes,…

Buddhism is an ancient discipline, but it still managements to intersect with modern religion at a lot of junctions. In the 20th and 21st centuries, especially, the teachings of the Buddha have become more prevalent, not only in Buddhist circles, but also in non-Buddhist treatment of certain events, philosophies and concepts. The products of these intersections of modern writing and Buddhism demonstrate a strong leaning towards secularism, and neo-spirituality – both of which are essentially the…

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