...Alex Houen This article explores ways in which the poems Allen Ginsberg wrote against the Vietnam War entailed resisting what he viewed to be effects of “coldwar subjectivity” – in particular, the automation of thinking and feeling. Many of these poems are what Ginsberg called “auto poems”: lyrical...

...: 265). David Sterritt in his study Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the Fifties, and Film (1998) captures the subterranean transformation of selves and worlds that Kerouac and his community of beatitude seekers (particularly William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, and Allen Ginsberg) had...

... on the other side of the planet caught in barbed wire, fire ball bullet shock, bayonet electricity bomb blast terrific in skull & belly, shrapneled throbbing meat —Allen Ginsberg, “Wichita Vortex Sutra” Nancy Spero’s (1926–2009) gouache and ink-on-paper painting Kill Commies/Maypole (1967b...

... Court differentiated youthful from adult citizens in permitting state governments to legislate in ways that would be unconstitutional if applied to adults ( Ginsberg v. New York 390 US 629). Youth’s grand paradox had fully emerged, its fate to be simultaneously “the most silenced population in society...