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Best Minds of My Generation

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by Allen Ginsberg


  205. Ibid., p. 21.

  206. Ibid., p. 27.

  207. Ibid., pp. 32–33.

  208. Ibid., p. 37.

  209. Ibid., p. 41.

  210. Ibid., p. 68.

  211. Ibid., pp. 69–70.

  212. Williams, William Carlos. Paterson, Book 3 (New York: New Directions, 1949), p. 204.

  213. Ginsberg, Collected Poems 1947–1997, p. 74.

  214. Ibid., p. 23.

  215. Ibid., p. 22.

  216. Ibid., p. 12.

  217. Ibid., p. 72.

  218. Ibid., pp. 91–95.

  219. Ibid., pp. 98–99.

  220. Ibid., pp. 100–101.

  221. Ibid., pp. 103–4.

  222. Ibid., p. 121.

  223. Williams, William Carlos. Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (New York: New Directions, 1962), p. 75.

  224. Ginsberg, Collected Poems 1947–1997, pp. 132–33.

  225. Allen, Donald M., ed.. The New American Poetry 1945–1960 (New York: Grove Press, 1960), p. 414.

  226. Spengler, Oswald. The Decline of the West (New York: Modern Library, 1965), p. 251.

  227. Ginsberg, Collected Poems 1947–1997, p. 196.

  228. Holmes, John Clellon. Go (New York: New American Library, 1980), pp. 80–82.

  229. Ibid., pp. 82–84.

  230. Ginsberg, Collected Poems 1947–1997, p. 14.

  231. Ibid., p. 18.

  232. Holmes. “This Is the Beat Generation.”

  233. Williams, William Carlos. “Symposium: The Beat Poets,” Wagner Literary Magazine, no. 1 (Spring 1959), p. 24.

  234. Kerouac, Jack. Heaven and Other Poems (San Francisco: Grey Fox, 1977)

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