![]() Full of penetrating insight and fascinating literary gossip, the book is a major contribution to the core Beat canon. The opening line of the song, I saw the best minds of my generation/destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical. preserving intact the story of the literary movement Ginsberg led, promoted and never ceased to embody' The New York Times Book Review The Best Minds of My Generation presents the best of these candid, intimate and illuminating lectures, revealing Kerouac, Burroughs and the rest of the Beats as Ginsberg knew them: friends, confidantes, literary mentors and fellow visionaries in a group who started a revolution. In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem 'Howl', Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation - partly to preserve his own memories of those years. Allen Ginsberg Best Minds of My Generation (Paperback) Penguin Moder (UK IMPORT) Title. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lectures ![]()
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