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2018 A-Z Challenge 2.0: B - Beatnik

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by

madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn

looking for an angry fix,

angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly

connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night..."

Allen Ginsberg, poem "Howl".

 

A.Ginsberg is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed.

 

I have decided to show how A. Ginsberg (performed by James Franco in the eponymous movie) reads a fragment of the poem, San Francisco.

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