Ginsberg went to New York that fall hoping to rendezvous with Cassady, but Cassady had returned to San Francisco a couple of days earlier to get married.
Cassady and Ginsberg were together in Denver June through August 1947, before Ginsberg went to Dakar and Cassady went to New york. Cassady was basically heterosexual in a homosexual milieu his life was full of pathos, and prison he died in 1968. Cassady had been the companion of Jack Kerouac (1922≦9) in his travels, described in Kerouac's On the Road (1957). His first important relationship was with Neal Cassady, and their letters chart an odyssey, geographially as well as spiritually, ranging across America, South America and India. " By the 1960s Ginsberg was preoccupied with Buddhist wisdom, and he became a leading figure in the Flower Power movement, lecturing in American universities against the Vietnam war and chanting his mesmerising Hare Krishna Mahamantra. Ginsberg's great poem Howl (1956) was one of the most shocking poems of that generation "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, / dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix" but also one of the most liberating, a watershed for gay liberation "who howled on their knees in the subway and were dragged off the roof waving genitals and manuscripts, / who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy. To sum up the gay "line of succession," Walt Whitman slept with Edward Carpenter, who slept with Gavin Arthur (1901≧2), who slept with Neal Cassady, who slept with Allen Ginsberg (born 1926) the current reigning queen, who generously shared the mantle of gay poetry among the Beat Generation in the 1950s. Neal Cassady to Allen Ginsberg Excerpts from My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through theĬenturies, Edited by Rictor Norton Copyright © 1997, 1998 by Rictor Norton. Urn:oclc:859051974 Scandate 20111021133543 Scanner Love Letters through the Centuries: Neal Cassady to Allen Ginsberg OL4443889W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.42 Pages 474 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1468305719 Urn:lcp:offroadmyyearsw00cass:epub:d8dac31a-b10a-41bd-9253-a9fbea9a3bdb Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier offroadmyyearsw00cass Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t84j1h72f Isbn 9780688088910Ġ688088910 Lccn 90005588 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL1853872M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:31:22 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA141304 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor
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