Ecstasy of the Beats: On the Road to Understanding

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Who were the beats? Not the sandle-clad "beatniks" of popular lore but dedicated writers, experimenters, skit improvisers, theorizers, hedonists, close friends, bisexual free lovers, shapers of the future. The beats hung out at Columbia university and cheap Times Square cafeterias, devouring ideas. David Creighton shows how the world has taken up their message. In Ecstasy of the Beats he gives a fresh portrait of Carolyn Cassady, "Queen of the Beats," and of the four major Beat ...

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Who were the beats? Not the sandle-clad "beatniks" of popular lore but dedicated writers, experimenters, skit improvisers, theorizers, hedonists, close friends, bisexual free lovers, shapers of the future. The beats hung out at Columbia university and cheap Times Square cafeterias, devouring ideas. David Creighton shows how the world has taken up their message. In Ecstasy of the Beats he gives a fresh portrait of Carolyn Cassady, "Queen of the Beats," and of the four major Beat writers.

Jack Kerouac's On the Road gave a pattern of adventure to restless youth, Allen Ginsberg donned a prophet's robe by writing Howl, William Burroughs warned against control mechanisms in Naked Lunch, and Neal Cassady's high-energy life made him an icon of freedom. Travelling widely to see where they lived, Creighton enriches the meaning of On the Road and other Beat classics. He invites the reader on the Beats' journey toward ever-deeper levels of understanding and provides interesting insight into Kerouacs French-Canadian roots.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781550027341
  • Publisher: Dundurn Press
  • Publication date: 9/1/2007
  • Pages: 320
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.75 (d)

Meet the Author

David Creighton wrote two books and Losing the Empress(Dundurn), about the sinking of the Empress of Ireland, which led to a role in Robert Ballard's PBS documentary Lost Liners. He likes to travel luggage-free, staying in offbeat places like Amsterdam's Hotel Brian, but otherwise lives with his wife, Judy, in Burlington, Ontario.

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Table of Contents


Acknowledgements     9
Prologue: A Road Trip, a Road Trip: Manhattan, 2007     11
Go for Broke: Bracknell, England, 2005     15
Put Up Your Dukes and Write!: New York City, 1940s     29
Ragged and Ecstatic Joy: Denver, 1940s     53
A Plank Where All the Angels Dove Off: San Francisco, 1940s-1960s     71
Rough and Hard and Extreme: Mexico, 1950s-1960s     101
Not Akin to Lustful Thoughts: Europe and Africa, 1950s-1960s     117
The Perfect Ecstasy: Lowell, 1920s to Present     135
Golden Ash, Blissful Emptiness: New England, 1890s-1960s     161
It Was Pure, in My Heart: New Jersey and New York, 1920s-1990s     175
Canada Was My Bosom of God: Quebec, 1950s-1960s and Early Years     211
Down into the Darks: Southern United States, 1940s-1960s     227
Everything Is Ecstasy: Central United States, 1940s-1990s     241
Epilogue: Five Million of Stars: Quebec and Toronto     265
Chronology     275
Family Trees     281
Maps     285
Suggested Reading and Viewing     293
Index     303
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