Hedwig Gorski
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Hedwig Irene Gorski is an American performance poet and an avant-garde artist who labels her aesthetic as "American futurism." The term "performance poetry," a precursor to slam poetry, is attributed
Gorski in Louisiana, 2009
Gorski with Babe Stovall on a 1973 trip to rural Mississippi to visit blues guitarist Roosevelt Holts
Gorski with Václav Havel
Gorski with Swedish actor Peter Stormare in Prague, Czech Republic, backstage at Bob Dylan's concert in October 2003
Beat Generation
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The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post–World War II and Cold War eras. The bu
Hedwig Gorski
…without actually singing. The compositions written for each poem by D'Jalma Garnier ranged from jazz to country and western to rock and roll Unlike the Beats, Gorski wrote her stylized narrative and moody lyrical poetry only for performance with the music composed by D'Jalma Garnier specifically for each…
A section devoted to the beat generation at a bookstore in Stockholm
Burroughs 1983 crop b
Allen Ginsberg 1979 cropped