jack kerouac

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ok to begin with i totally love allen ginsberg. i think that he's an awesome poet and i don't think that he was living in the shadow of his "hit" poems. granted, 'howl' was an awesome poem; it basically made people aware that the "beats" even existed, but i don't think that you can say that was the only place he ever got any acclaim. i think if you like...lived in the times that all that was going on that would be more evident. like he wrote all those little paphlets and stuff and they would be headlined with howl or america or something, but then they would get insight to his other poems as well. that's what i think.

and burroughs...my god. what the hell can you even say about the guy? i tried to read naked lunch before and any attempt was absolutly futile. i've heard it read in documentaries and stuff ('the source' is a really good one btw) and *some* of that made sense. but to me it seems like he's in denial that he really wants to write poetry. that's what all of (what i read of) naked lunch sounded like. just a bunch of poems connected together with no real form. so if you can give me any *idea* what the book was about or any...way, i guess, to read it. i'd love to know.

and rambling is cool. that's what we're here to do.