BEST MINDS OF MY GENERATION

In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem "Howl," and Jack Kerouac's seminal booku003ciu003eOn the Roadu003c/iu003e, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. Through the creation of this course, which he ended up teaching five times, first at the Naropa Institute and later at Brooklyn College, Ginsberg saw an opportunity to present the history of Beat Literature in his own inimitable way. Compiled and edited by renowned Beat scholar Bill Morgan, and with an introduction by Anne Waldman,u003ciu003eThe Best Minds of My Generationu003c/iu003e presents the lectures in edited form, complete with notes, and paints a portrait of the Beats as Ginsberg knew them: friends, confidantes, literary mentors, and fellow revolutionaries.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Ginsberg was seminal to the creation of a public perception of Beat writers and knew all of the major figures personally, making him uniquely qualified to be the historian of the movement. Inu003ciu003eThe Best Minds of My Generationu003c/iu003e, Ginsberg shares anecdotes of meeting Kerouac, Burroughs, and other writers for the first time, explains his own poetics, elucidates the importance of music to Beat writing, discusses visual influences and the cut-up method, and paints a portrait of a group who were leading a literary revolution. For Beat aficionados and neophytes alike,u003ciu003eThe Best Minds of My Generationu003c/iu003e is a personal yet critical look at one of the most important literary movements of the twentieth century.

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