Which San Francisco bookstore did Lawrence Ferlinghetti open in 1953?
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City Lights
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Which San Francisco bookstore did Lawrence Ferlinghetti open in 1953?
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City Lights
What was the name of the New York bar where Allen Ginsberg met Neal Cassady in 1947?
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The West End Bar
What was Gregory Corso’s first published poetry collection?
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The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other Poems
Which 1952 essay by John Clellon Holmes helped define the Beat Generation for a wide readership?
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This Is the Beat Generation
What was the title of Donald Allen’s 1960 anthology of postwar American experimental poets?
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The New American Poetry 1945–1960
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What was the name of the New York bar where Allen Ginsberg met Neal Cassady in 1947?
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The West End Bar
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The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other Poems
Which 1952 essay by John Clellon Holmes helped define the Beat Generation for a wide readership?
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This Is the Beat Generation
What was the title of Donald Allen’s 1960 anthology of postwar American experimental poets?
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The New American Poetry 1945–1960
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William S. Burroughs
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang