Thursday, September 18, 2014

Gary Snyder Summarizes the Beat Generation


"In a way the Beat Generation is a gathering together of all the available models and myths of freedom in America that had existed before, namely: Whitman, John Muir, Thoreau, and the American bum.




"We put them together and . . . then we added some Buddhism to it.

Gary Snyder


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