Feeney: The Beat sensibility

[jbor at bigpond.com]

'A Frank look at the Beat sensibility'
by Mark Feeney, _The Boston Globe_, April 17, 2006, p. C. 1.

[...] A new anthology of essays on 'Howl' is called '_The Poem That  
Changed America_. With all due respect to Ginsberg, that's a stretch.  
It's no exaggeration, though, to call _The Americans_ the book that  
changed photography. What was once a revolutionary document soon became  
the closest thing the second half of the 20th century had to a manual  
of photographic style. The Beats have had surprisingly few literary  
legatees (Ken Kesey, Sam Shepard, Thomas Pynchon in his less paranoid  
moments), but Frank's photographic offspring are too numerous to list.  
[...]

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