Read: Gary Snyder, “Notes on the Beat Generation,” in A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1995), 7–13. First published in Japanese in Chūō Kōron (中央公論), January 1960. [PDF]
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Mark Gonnerman was interviewed by Denis Punegov, the founding editor of the St. Petersburg zine, Svyazi, about teaching beat culture and literature and his experience with this at Hunan University in China. You may download the PDF of this article via the link below: Denis Punegov, “War For Imagination [Interview on the Beats with Mark Gonnerman],” Svyazi [St. Petersburg (in […]
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Today is the Dalai Lama’s 80th rebirthday. When I hosted His Holiness at the Aurora Forum at Stanford on November 3–4, 2005, I presented him with a copy of Mountains and Rivers Without End. I reminded him that the poet, Gary Snyder, and his traveling companions, Joanne Kyger, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky visited him at his headquarters in Dharamshala on March 31, […]
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