Bob Dylan & Allen Ginsberg
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Beatniks were artists and writers who started a literature-based sociocultural movement in 1950s America. This Tumblr is all about them, their work, their inspirations, and those they inspired. I also include the evolution of faux beat culture into a 1950s pop trend as well as how the beatniks' influence continues today. I apologize for any reposts; it's difficult to remember what I have and have not shared.
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Where there was a strong writer who could hold her own, like Diane Di Prima, we would certainly work with her and recognize her. She was a genius. — Allen Ginsberg, on working with female writers
Fried Shoes and Cooked Diamonds, “an hour-long color movie at Jack Kerouac School of Poetics, Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado 1978 summer, a serious and spontaneously filmed account of conversations and teachings of home scenes of myself, poets Peter Orlovsky, William S. Burroughs, Anne Waldman, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Diane di Prima, Timothy Leary, Daniel Ellsberg and Gregory Corso and Lama Chogyam Trungpa - including conversation, singing, nakedness, meditation, student Poets, and readings, & Nuclear Protest arrests.”
Allen Ginsberg in 1979’s “The War at Home” discussing planned police censorship of citizens in 1968. (The entire film is on Netflix, for those of you who use it.)
Lew Welch and Allen Ginsberg outside City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, October 30, 1963, the day of the Madame Nhu protest.
(Source: lk-shaw)
