City Lights and the Emergence of Beat Poetry: How Howl and Other Poems redefined Poetic and Cultural Boundaries in the mid-1950s
This paper examines how City Lights, a San Francisco-based small press, became not only the lighthouse in the Bay for Beat and Beat-related artists and poets but also a countercultural organ of dissent channelling new poetic visions and aesthetics starting from the mid-1950s. By providing an entry i...
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| Language: | English |
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Institut des Amériques
2017-07-01
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| Series: | IdeAs : Idées d’Amériques |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ideas/1992 |