Carl Solomon Carl Solomon (March 30, 1928 – February 26, 1993) was an American writer. One of Solomon's best-known pieces of writing is Report from the Asylum: Afterthoughts of a Shock Patient. Biography[edit] Solomon was born in the Bronx of New York City. One of Solomon's best-known pieces of writing is Report from the Asylum: Afterthoughts of a Shock Patient. In the late 1960s, Solomon published two chapbooks of prose poems with Mary Beach's Beach Books, Texts & Documents, distributed by City Lights Books: Mishaps, Perhaps (1966) and More Mishaps (1968). Notes[edit] References[edit] Collins, Ronald & Skover, David, Mania: The Story of the Outraged & Outrageous Lives that Launched a Cultural Revolution (Top-Five Books, March 2013).
Une seconde… Regarde ! » Blog Archive » LA BEAT GENERATION La Beat Generation est un mouvement littéraire et artistique né dans les années 1950, aux États-Unis. William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg et Jack Kerouac sont les précurseurs du mode de vie de la jeunesse des années 1960, celle de la Beat Generation, « qui a ébranlé la société américaine dans ses certitudes. Elle a directement inspiré aussi bien les mouvements de mai 1968 que l’opposition à la guerre du Vietnam, ou les hippies de Berkeley et Woodstock. L’adjectif « beat » (proposé par Herbert Huncke) avait initialement le sens de « fatigué » ou « cassé », venant de l’argot américain, mais Kerouac y ajouta la connotation paradoxale de upbeat et beatific ; il se moquera souvent de l’appellation donnée au mouvement (il dit ainsi « I’m a Catholic, not a beatnik »). Jack Kerouac s’explique lui même sur le terme et le présente comme tiré d’une expression employée par les noirs américains, dans le sud des États-Unis, faisant référence à la pauvreté, à l’écrasement[3].
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BEAT ART Peter Orlovsky Peter Anton Orlovsky (July 8, 1933 – May 30, 2010) was an American poet and actor. He was the long time partner of Allen Ginsberg. Early life and career[edit] In 1953 Orlovsky was drafted into the United States Army for the Korean War at the age of 19. He met Ginsberg while working as a model for the painter Robert La Vigne in San Francisco in December 1954. With Ginsberg's encouragement, Orlovsky began writing in 1957 while the pair were living in Paris. In 1974, Orlovsky joined the faculty of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, teaching poetry. Death[edit] In May 2010, friends reported that Orlovsky, who had had lung cancer for several months, was moved from his home in St. Poetry[edit] His work has also appeared in The New American Poetry 1945–1960 (1960), The Beatitude Anthology (1965), as well as the literary magazines Yugen and Outsider. Filmography[edit] Notes[edit] References[edit]
Beat generation - Encyclopédie Larousse Mouvement littéraire et culturel américain qui a regroupé durant les années 1950-1960 des jeunes, des écrivains (A. Ginsberg, J. Kerouac [Sur la route, 1957], W. Le sens du mot beat est incertain : il peut signifier « battu », « vaincu » ou « battement » (par allusion au jazz), ou encore exprimer la « béatitude ». Pour comprendre ce mouvement et sa place dans l'avant-garde, il convient de rattacher sa révolte à une tradition libertaire et individualiste qui remonte au xixe siècle américain, lorsque l'injustice de certaines lois, en contradiction avec l'idéal démocratique américain, suscita les violentes critiques de Henry Thoreau. Cette double influence, européenne et américaine, explique l'ambivalence des rapports de la Beat generation avec son pays. Chez Allen Ginsberg, la critique se fait virulente. Tendances bouddhistes Cependant, la Beat generation ne s'est pas engagée politiquement. La poésie beat, très peu littéraire, est faite pour la lecture à haute voix.
Beatles Timeline A very noteworthy entry into this Beatles Timeline: On this date, Paul McCartney performs a free concert before an unprecedented crowd of "around 500,000" at the Coliseum in Rome. Said Paul, "I'm completely blown away - it was one of the most fantastic evenings of my life and I'm so chuffed that at my stage in the game this was the biggest show of my entire career," wrote the Daily Post. The day before, Paul held a charity concert at the Coliseum before a crowd of 400 people who paid up to $1,485 in an internet auction for tickets. Proceeds of $285,000 were raised from the concert and will go towards "Adopt-A-Minefield" and to archaeological projects in Rome. May 17Lennon on drugs: the Beatles' secret testimony on marijuana in Canada In a major news article by the Ottawa Citizen, veteran music reporter Norman Provencher reveals the circumstances as to why John and Yoko's drug testimony was held in "secrecy" before the Le Dain Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs.
‘The Darwin Poems’ » emilyballou.com “Lean and warm and funny and beautifully written…A mad, compressed biography, in a luminous, fertile poetry, of a once-in-centuries genius.” -Luke Davies “Vivid, musical, sensuous and strong”-Adam Thorpe “These rich, wry poems bring us extraordinarily close to Darwin’s life and mind.” -Dame Gillian Beer, Author of Darwin’s Plots “A tidal imagination”-Matthew Hollis To lose your mother at the age of eight. To create a new kind of faith that will change the world. In 1832, Charles Darwin, a twenty-two year old naturalist and beetle-collector was offered a place on board a ship called the Beagle. Emily Ballou’s beautifully imagined verse-portrait of Charles Darwin’s life saves the man from the legend, bringing to light a fragile and deeply-felt humanity, capturing the textures of his work and dreams, the noise and touch of his wife and children, his inner doubts and questions. The Darwin Poems by Emily Ballou.
Jack Kerouac Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Jack Kerouac a passé la majeure partie de sa vie partagé entre les grands espaces américains et l'appartement de sa mère. Ce paradoxe est à l'image de son mode de vie : confronté aux changements rapides de son époque, il a éprouvé de profondes difficultés à trouver sa place dans le monde, ce qui l'a amené à rejeter les valeurs traditionnelles des années 1950, donnant ainsi naissance au mouvement beat. « Jazz poet », comme il se définit lui-même, Kerouac vante les bienfaits de l'amour (la passion charnelle est pour lui « la porte du paradis »), proclame l'inutilité du conflit armé, quel qu'il soit, et considère que « seuls les gens amers dénigrent la vie ». Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Premières années[modifier | modifier le code] Jusqu'à l'âge de six ans, Jack Kerouac ne parle que le français, ou plus précisément le joual, et ce n'est qu'à l'école qu'il apprend l'anglais, comme seconde langue.
Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg (/ˈɡɪnzbərɡ/; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression. Ginsberg is best known for his epic poem "Howl", in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States.[1][2][3] In 1957, "Howl" attracted widespread publicity when it became the subject of an obscenity trial, as it depicted heterosexual and homosexual sex[4] at a time when sodomy laws made homosexual acts a crime in every U.S. state. Ginsberg was a practicing Buddhist who studied Eastern religious disciplines extensively. His collection The Fall of America shared the annual U.S. Biography[edit] Early life and family[edit] Ginsberg was born into a Jewish[16] family in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Paterson.[17] New York Beats[edit]
Hippie Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Les hippies se distinguaient du reste de la population, qu'ils appelaient les « straight »[Notes 1], par leurs tenues vestimentaires, leurs chevelures et une liberté ostentatoire dans leurs relations amoureuses. Une composition psychédélique. Le mouvement hippie est un courant de contre-culture apparu dans les années 1960 aux États-Unis, avant de se diffuser dans le reste du monde occidental. L'ouverture à d'autres cultures, un besoin d'émancipation et la recherche de nouvelles perceptions sensorielles, les amenèrent aux expressions artistiques du psychédélisme. Définition[modifier | modifier le code] Cependant, les hippies n'utilisaient pas ce terme pour se désigner eux-mêmes. De manière générale, les hippies contestaient le matérialisme et le consumérisme des sociétés industrielles ainsi que tout ce qui y était lié. Beaucoup étaient des étudiants de la classe moyenne[8], issus de la nombreuse génération du baby boom de l'après-guerre.
Howl "Howl" is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1955, published as part of his 1956 collection of poetry titled Howl and Other Poems. Ginsberg began work on "Howl" as early as 1954. In the Paul Blackburn Tape Archive at the University of California, San Diego, Ginsberg can be heard reading early drafts of his poem to his fellow writing associates. "Howl" is considered to be one of the great works of American literature.[1][2] It came to be associated with the group of writers known as the Beat Generation, which included Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.[1] There is no foundation to the myth that "Howl" was written as a performance piece and later published by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books. Background[edit] Allen Ginsberg wrote drafts of the poem "Howl" in mid-1954 to 1955, purportedly at a coffeehouse known today as the Caffe Mediterraneum in Berkeley, California. Ginsberg would experiment with this breath-length form in many later poems. Overview and structure[edit]