San Francisco Poetry Renaissance, 1955-1960 (Twayne's United States Authors Series) - Hardcover

A well-documented review of background and scholarship on the Beats that begins with Allen Ginsberg's famous reading of "Howl" at the Six Gallery on October 7, 1955, this study (with extensive footnotes and annotated bibliography) shows how the San Francisco poetry movement grew into a national counterculture. Separating sensational publicity from literary achievement, French also sheds new light on overlooked writers associated with "the beatific life" like Pierre DeLattre, Lenore Kandel, and Bob Kaufman, in addition to the familiar names of Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg. Author of other Twayne volumes, French provides a readable reassessment of the way experimental poets, "innovators of the present," erupted into the mainstream in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Frank Allen, SUNY at Cobleskill
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