The Beat Generation: Difference between revisions

{{quote|I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,

 

Progenitors to the [[Beatnik]], although the writers themselves were not really beatniks. Not to be confused with beets, [[Beat|Beats]] or [[The Beatles]] (although the Fab Four were certainly influenced by the Beat writers and the idiosyncratic spelling of their name is partially a reference to the movement).

 

=== Primary Beat Writers: ===

* Amiri Baraka

 

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