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Storm center of this culture crisis was Poet-Painter William Morris. 28. who can make with both the words and the brushes. "If Jack Kerouac is the prose writer of the Beat Generation, I am its visual chronicler," boasts Morris. As a painter, Los Angeles-born Morris once rode a motor scooter from Barcelona ("I cleaned Miro's studio") to Denmark (where he painted canvases with his bare feet), has kept a partial record of 25 exhibitions and eight museums in which his work hangs. As a poet, Morris has the word from Ezra Pound ("In 50 years...
Bill Everson learned about religious anarchy at a camp for conscientious objectors during the war. When that was over, his marriage on the rocks, he joined the group of creative and not-so-creative bums around Poet Kenneth Rexroth that began the "San Francisco renaissance." before Beatniks Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg came out from Manhattan and put the movement in the news. "I'm pre-beat," says Brother Antoninus...
...decade's most celebrated banger of mystical ashcans has written a fictional account of his childhood, and surprisingly, while the lad he describes is no Penrod, neither is he Little Boy Beat. Jack Duluoz, the author's alter-Kerouac, is exuberantly profane and comfortably delinquent-a kind of city-bound Tom Sawyer who at one point seems ready to go rafting down New England's flood-swollen Merrimack River on a henhouse roof...
Yakking in the Blue. At the outset, Kerouac warns what he is up to: "The other night I had a dream that I was sitting on the sidewalk on Moody Street. Pawtucketville, Lowell, Mass., with a pencil and paper in my hand saying to myself 'Describe the wrinkly tar of this sidewalk, also the iron pickets of Textile Institute, or the doorway where Lousy and you and G.J.'s always sittin and dont stop to think of words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this...
Pinball prose, grookish goofiness and all, Kerouac's book is a pleasant boyhood novel. Doctor Sax, which was written in 1952, comes from the apparently bottomless hopper that the author had filled before his bestselling On the Road was published. Perhaps because it contains no such adult concerns as marijuana, Zen Buddhism or women to dull his exuberance, it is Kerouac's best book...