American author Jack Kerouac (1922 – 1969) gestures expansively as he reads poetry at the Artist’s Studio (48 East 3rd Street), New York, New York, February 15, 1959. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images)
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“So as to give them courage we must teach people to be shocked by themselves.”
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Charlie Parker plays all that jazz, Jack writes ‘On The Road’ ft. Neal Cassady, Ferlinghetti realizes his American Dream is City Lights Books, and Ginsberg flushes out his soul with stream of consciousness and the Howl, but what is love to the Beat Generation?