City Lights and the Emergence of Beat Poetry: How Howl and Other Poems redefined Poetic and Cultural Boundaries in the mid-1950s

This paper examines how City Lights, a San Francisco-based small press, became not only the lighthouse in the Bay for Beat and Beat-related artists and poets but also a countercultural organ of dissent channelling new poetic visions and aesthetics starting from the mid-1950s. By providing an entry i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peggy Pacini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut des Amériques
Series:IdeAs
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ideas/1992