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citation: poets.org 2
• Started in the 1940s on the East coast and transplanted
to the West coast in the 1950s
• San Francisco became “the heart” of the Beat
Movement
The Beat Movement
Quotes taken from: poets.org 3
• “a group of writers interested in changing consciousness and defying conventional writing”
• “The battle against social conformity and literary tradition was central to the work of the Beats.”
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The Beatniks• Allen Ginsberg• Gary Snyder• Lawrence Ferlinghetti • Gregory Corso • Diane di Prima• Neal Cassady• Anne Waldman • Michael McClure• William S. Burroughs • Jack Kerouac
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Two of the GreatestAllen Ginsberg
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Ginzy• Born in Newark, New Jersey, on
June 3, 1926
• Jewish
• Best friends with Jack Kerouac
• Author of “Howl”
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“Howl” was written in 1956
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGoY9gom50
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Ferlinghetti• Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1919• B.A. from the University of North Carolina,
an M.A. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne
• 1953, Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin began to publish City Lights magazine
• opened the City Lights Books Shop in San Francisco to help support the magazine
• In 1955, they launched City Light Publishing
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“A Coney Island of the Mind” was written in 1958
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Allen Ginsberg• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M
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kMi3lsVYA&feature=related• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C
Uyx6Xa0JSs&feature=related• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK
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34-QN9qnEQ&feature=related• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L
rc96uGWyrE&feature=related• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C
rHv6IASWQ4• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi
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Works Cited• "City Lights Books." City Lights Books. City
Lights, n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2010. <http://www.citylights.com/ferlinghetti
• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. "A Coney Island of the Mind." A Coney Island of the mind: poems. New York: New Directions, 1958. 3-4, 42. Print.
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti." Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2010. <www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/367>.