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"Beatdom #24 is dedicated to the Beat writers who lived on or wrote about the West Coast of the United States. This issue looks at the lives and work of Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan, Diane di Prima, and many more Beat icons. It also explores the extent to which the West Coast helped shape Beat literature (as well as its public image) and how the Beats may have morphed into the later hippie movement. Here's what you can expect from Beatdom #24: Essays Go West Young Beats, by Ryan Mathews Kenneth Rexroth: West Coast Bard, by David S. Wills Private[s] Practice: Reading the Priestess in Diane di Prima's Memoirs of a Beatnik, by Kaley Hensley Lisa Says: Lisa Brinker, Gregory Corso, & Max, by Kurt Hemmer Duncan Among the ""Stars"" An Essay on Robert Duncan's Poetics of ""Open Form"", by Yorio Hirano A Note on Climate and Culture, by Weldon Kees And the Hippies Were Boiled in Their Tank Tops, by Leon Horton Interviews Eileen Myles Interview, by Sylas Yarad Soheyl Dahi Interview, by Ryan Mathews Memoirs Gary Snyder Noticed my Face Tattoo, by Tony Wallin-Sato Discoveries, by Barry Garelick Reviews He, Leo: The Life and Poetry of Lew Welch Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time"

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