Archive For April 2009
Herbert Huncke
on April 9, 2009 by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
Huck, whom you’ll see on Times Square, somnolent and alert, sad, sweet, dark, holy. Just out of jail. Martyred. Tortured by sidewalks, starved for sex and companionship, open to anything, […]
Jack Kerouac and Jazz
on by Mary in News, Comments (0)
This is a pretty good write-up of a seminar about the mutual inspirations between the beats and jazz.
“Howl” biopic starring James Franco
on by Mary in News, Comments (0)
This biopic also is in production and slated to come out in 2010. It will star James Franco as Allen Ginsberg, and will center around the publication of Ginsberg’s poem […]
Upcoming beat generation biopic – Kill Your Darlings
on by Mary in News, Comments (0)
A new beat biopic about the stormy events between Lucien Carr and David Kammerer back in NYC in 1944 is in production. This film is called Kill Your Darlings. Jesse […]
Jack Kerouac
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
For the greatest key to courage is shame and the blurfaces in the passing train see nothing out on the plain but figures of hoboes rolling out of site…
Charles Bukowski
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
We are like roses that have never bothered to
bloom when we should have bloomed and
Philip Whalen
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
TRUE CONFESSIONS
My real trouble is
People keep mistaking me
for a human being.
Ruth Weiss
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
Ruth’s family escaped Austria under the Nazi regime and landed in New York in 1939, and later in Chicago. Upon her family’s return to Europe, Ruth underwent her own road […]
Lew Welch
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
All things considered, it’s a gentle and understanding
planet, even here. Far gentler
Gary Snyder
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (1)
Cobble of milky way,
straying planets,
These poems, people,
Kenneth Rexroth
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
You,
The hyena with polished face and bow tie,
Kenneth Patchen
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
I am the world crier, and this is my dangerous career…I am the one to call your bluff, and this is my climate.
Edie Parker Kerouac
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
Edie met Jack through a mutual friend and former merchant marine buddy of Kerouac’s: Henry Cru.
Michael McClure
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
And grim intensity–close within myself. No longer
a cloud
but flesh real as a rock. Herakles
of primordial substance and vitality…
