“…while the ‘Lost Generation,’ the rebellious avant-garde of the 1920s often taken as a precursor to the Beats, was decisively repudiated by most of its members within a decade of its inception, the Beat movement in its various permutations continues even today, fifty years later, sustaining its veterans and attracting new adherents among those equally distrustful of official pieties and postmodern evasions, those committed to regenerative expressiveness that respects no boundaries or prohibitions.”
- Ann Douglas -
