The Daybreak Boys: Essays on the Literature of the Beat Generation

by Gregory Stephenson

"Who howled ... and were dragged off the roof waving genitals and manuscripts-- Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"

"Beat." A single-word synthesis describing this group of disaffected heroes of the subculture who used the language of the body, as well as of the soul, in their writing. These questers for a new vision, journeying through the inner and outer conflicts of their disparate, though related, lives by experimenting with new modes of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809315645
• ISBN13: 9780809315642
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"