>Dennis M. Hammes wrote on 5/23/07 5:00 AM:
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>> The "Beat Movement" started producing pop prose -- both essay and
>> fiction -- as a direct response to the onset of the Depression, and
>> has its roots in the amplified disparities of the Have-Nots even
>> before that.
>> The "Beat" attitude is the direct result of the fact that the
>> Anarchists resulted only in WWI, and the Wobblies resulted only in
>> the Depression.
>> Beat Poetry was a little late to recognise or accept the Movement,
>> because most practising poets were already safely tenured from those
>> world-wide nasties behind the Walls of Ivy.
>> The Modern or PO-wetic or Second Generation Beat attitude is the
>> driect result of the fact that WWII resulted only in the Fuken Bomb
>> and the...