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What school did beat generation icons Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs attend together?
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Where did Allen Ginsberg attend college?
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Allen Ginsberg wrote _____________ in memory of his mother.
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This Beat figure is mentioned in Allen Ginsberg's "Sunflower Sutra."
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... and, finally:
If cats could write poetry, in Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse, whose cat might have submitted an entry entitled "Meowl" and beginning with the words "I saw the best kittens of my litter abandoned by humans?"
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In Howl, Allen Ginsberg saw the best minds of his generation
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The poem Howl by Allen Ginsberg is considered to be the first substantial manifestation of this literary movement. What is the name of this group?
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What is the name of Allen Ginsberg's most famous poem?
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What do Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg have in common?
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Which author has NOT been lambasted by critics for alleged anti-Semitism in their works?
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Which poet faced the suicides of first his wife and then his mistress in succession?
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Arthur Miller wrote about Willy's, Allen Ginsberg's went with fame, and Albert Camus' was happy (although not in real life). So whose took place in the afternoon?
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The New Oxford Book of American Verse
Name the quoted poet: "I wish I did not have to write the instruction manual on the uses of a new metal."
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The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon
Name the quoted poet: "My soul has grown deep like rivers."
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Who wrote the following collections of poetry:
"Love is a Dog from Hell"
"Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit"
"Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way"
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher,
what America did you have when Charon quit poling his ferry and
you got out on a smoking bank and stood watching the boat
disappear on the black waters of Lethe?
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From The New Oxford Book of American Verse edited by Richard Ellmann:
Name the quoted poet:
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
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