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A selection of the most exemplary poetry and prose of the Beat writers and writers influenced by the
Beat Generation, and visits to high-points "on the Beaten path," such as
Kerouac's hometown, and Tangiers, where
William S. Burroughs wrote portions of
Naked Lunch.
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"The Beats, that is, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Diane DiPrima, and Michael McClure, to name a core group, are finally being accorded the attention they deserve; they constituted, after all, a major, lastingly influential arts movement. . . . The fact that Waldman's [book] is of such high quality is no surprise; a poet herself, she cofounded, with Ginsberg, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado."—
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