Archives for posts tagged ‘Ginsberg’

The Rimbaud Problem: The Modernist As Symbol

A well-thought, clear-minded retort to the perpetuation of Rimbaud’s Myth

Beats on Film – Pull my Daisy

[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8994248541021504750&hl=en#] If you haven’t heard of it, check out Pull My Daisy. In this 26:13 minute film, Kerouac and Ginsberg show a typified depiction of the Beat generation. The film tells a story of a railway brakeman whose wife invites a bishop over for supper. However, the brakeman’s Beat-like friends crash the party, with comic [...]