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The Beat movement poetry evolved during the 1940s in both New York City and on the west coast. San Francisco became the heart of the movement in the early 1950s.
The origins of the Beat Generation can be traced to Columbia University. Classmates Lucien Carr and Allen Ginsberg discussed the need for a "New Vision", to counteract what they perceived as their teachers' conservative, formalistic literary ideals.
The Beat Movement is a group of authors whose literature explored and influenced American culture in the post-World War II era.
(1945-1959)
During the time period of the beat movement:
Truly I have lost weight, I have lost weight,
grown lean in love’s defense,
in love’s defense grown grave.
It was concupiscence that brought me to the state:
all bone and a bit of skin
to keep the bone within. ~ The skeleton's defense of Carnality by Jack Foley ( Poem )
Prose
I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting
for someone to really discover America
and wail ~ I am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti ( Poem )
Prose
BY: Daniel Leon, Danielle Cervantes, Julia Dorado, and Chanelle Herrera