Which Beat poet wrote the 1958 collection A Coney Island of the Mind?
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Which Beat poet wrote the 1958 collection A Coney Island of the Mind?
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Which name did LeRoi Jones adopt in 1968 after becoming associated with Black nationalism?
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Amiri Baraka
Which novel by Jack Kerouac portrays the fictional Buddhist poet Japhy Ryder?
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The Dharma Bums
Which Beat writer won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Turtle Island?
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Gary Snyder
Which Beat writer founded San Francisco’s City Lights bookstore in 1953?
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Which novel by Jack Kerouac portrays the fictional Buddhist poet Japhy Ryder?
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Gary Snyder
Which Beat writer founded San Francisco’s City Lights bookstore in 1953?
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Naomi Ginsberg
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Gregory Corso
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