Knights of the Road
Tom Clark: The Beat generation, 6 July 2000
This is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris
by James Campbell.
Vintage, 320 pp., £7.99, May 2000,0 09 928269 0 Show More
by James Campbell.
Vintage, 320 pp., £7.99, May 2000,
“... of William Blake intoning ‘Ah, Sunflower’ to him ‘like God had a human voice’. James Campbell, who introduces a note of irony into his reworking of twice-told Beat tales, refers to Ginsberg’s historic undergraduate illumination as ‘hand-held’ – perhaps an allusion to a key detail in what he had said to me: the fact that an act of ... ”