![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is Neal Cassady, a Beat poet and close friend of Jack Kerouac, known for his extensive drug use. Who went out whoring through Colorado in myriad stolen night-cars, N.C., secret hero of these poems, cocksman and Adonis of Denver. His death and his personality are referenced in the writings of several Beat poets, including John Clellon Holmes and Jack Kerouac. Cannastra was energetic, a drinker, a partier, and extremely smart. This entire section (and beyond) refers to Bill Cannastra, who awkwardly jumped out of a subway window for reasons involving liquor and died by decapitation. Who sang out of their windows in despair, fell out of the subway window. ![]() The idea that it was the Brooklyn Bridge was perpetuated in part by Ginsburg. That would be Tuli Kupferberg, a fellow Beat poet and artist who jumped off the Manhattan Bridge in 1944 at the age of 21. Most of them were Beat poets or members of the rising counterculture tide that swept across the country in the next decade or two. In fact, we can take all of Part I as commentary on its subjects' actions, which means that we can actually figure out a lot of what those best minds did. My view of Howl is that the first lines are the introduction to the first part, painting an image with a broad brush, and that the next follows on in more detail. ![]()
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