THE BEAT GENERATION

[APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Poetry_Month

WIKIPEDIA: THE BEAT GENERATION

WILLIAM SEWARD BURROUGHS II (Kansas: 1914-1997)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs

HERMAN POOLE BLOUNT/LE SONY'R RA (Alabama: 1914-1993)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI (New York: 1919-Present)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti

JEAN-LOUIS LEBRIS DE KEROUAC (Massachusetts: 1922-1969)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_kerouac

PHILIP WHALEN (Oregon: 1923-2002)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Whalen

FRANCIS RUSSELL O'HARA (Maryland: 1926-1966)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_O%27Hara

IRWIN ALLEN GINSBERG (New York: 1926-1996)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg

GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO (New York: 1930-2001)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Corso

GARY SHERMAN SNYDER (California: 1930-Present)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Snyder

MICHAEL MCCLURE (Kansas, 1932-Present)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McClure

PETER ORLOVSKY (New York: 1933-Present)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Orlovsky

DIANE DI PRIMA (New York: 1934-Present)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_di_Prima

EVERETT LEROI JONES/AMIRI BARAKA (New Jersey: 1934-Present)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeRoi_Jones

ANNE WALDMAN (New Jersey: 1945-Present)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Waldman

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TODD TAMANEND CLARK
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"I'm an American artist, and I have no guilt.
I seek pleasure. I seek the nerves under your skin."
- - Patti Smith

"The soul should always stand ajar,
ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
- - Emily Dickinson

This isn't exactly Beat and not precisely poetry and wasn't written by
Burroughs, though it might have been, but this episode reminds me of the
Dirty Vicar sketch from Monty Python, during which a troop of boy scouts
with their scoutmaster bursts energetically onto the scene of an encounter
between the priest and his mistress apropos of nothing, stand blinking
confused, then the master orders them back the way they'd come and they
retreat. At the end of the sketch, the Dirty Vicar is taking bows with his
mistress and the scouts come back and do likewise.

And to scramble back on-topic: Once there was a story written by William
Craddock called Twilight Candelabra, and his springboard was from a sentence
by William Burroughs in which he described a small decrepit South American
village under great heat in which the local gendarme spent his time, and he
had lots to spare, circling a dusty defunct town fountain on his bicycle.
Burroughs watched that scene, and declared it, for him, then for me through
Mr Craddock, the very meaning of stasis.

I'd be much obliged if anyone can discover for me where in Burroughs be that
sequence.

--
No Man knows nothing