tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259386991508935093.post4811746183285483073..comments2024-03-24T12:14:08.296-04:00Comments on THE DAILY BEAT: Life-size Kerouac sculpture and a lesson in news accuracyRick Dale, author of The Beat Handbookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17721559977431022390noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259386991508935093.post-74402367270831480682017-01-25T19:21:02.894-05:002017-01-25T19:21:02.894-05:00Hmm. I guess the answer is usually G. Corso.
But t...Hmm. I guess the answer is usually G. Corso.<br />But there's Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Mike McClure . . . Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259386991508935093.post-72562986396328455472017-01-15T19:02:04.009-05:002017-01-15T19:02:04.009-05:00Personally I think that a triumvirate of Kerouac, ...Personally I think that a triumvirate of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs is short one member. Gregory Corso should be, and usually is included as a core member, as he wrote and published early in the Beat era. In fact Corso's wonderful "Vestal Lady On Brattle" preceeded JK's OTR by two years, and he continued to write in the Beat vein throughout his life. <br />To me, Hunke and Cassady were muses, as were so many of their other friends in NYC and in SF who became recurring characters in Kerouac's novels and Ginsberg's poems. Both did write and later publish, but would not be considered Beat writers.<br />This leads to the question of the West Coast Beats, a group of formidable poets such as Snyder, Whalen, Creely, and Ferlinghetti. But with the exception of Ferlinghetti, are they to be considered Beat Writers? Probably not, but they did create the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance which was, for many reasons, associated with the Beats.<br /><br />Richard MarshAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com