Tag Archives: Gary Snyder
Beat. Bad. Baraka!
Writer Amiri Baraka was born Everett Leroi Jones in 1934, but changed his name in 1961. Baraka’s poetry included insightful and incendiary critiques of social mores and politics during a time when the American way of life at home and at work, in the bedroom and the boardroom and at the ballot box was being [...]
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Beat, Beatdom, Charles Olson, Diane Di Prima, Ed Dorn, Frank O'Hara, Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Leroi Jones, Michael McClure, New Jersey, Philip Whalen, Poet Laureate, Reality Studio, Somebody Blew Up America, Yugen
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Psychedelic All-Star Team
The Avengers, the Justice League, the X-Men, the Village People — everybody loves an all-star team. We can’t imagine a world without Reed, Susan, Johnny and Ben in cahoots, and it should come as no surprise that the same yearning to join forces with the best of one’s peers would find its expression in the [...]
