The Beat Generation

The musician Chris Hickey has a forthcoming album named “RAZZMATAZZ” that features this song, “Kerouac”.

Chris Hickey wrote and recorded a song, each day, for about three weeks. The result is “Razzmatazz” – 16 songs, just vocal & guitar, recorded in my bedroom on a hand-held voice recorder.

Chris Hickey – Kerouac (click for the download, here’s another link, here’s his site)

(Thanks, Chris!)

Submitted by Jared Muscat:

i have a ginsberg sketch I recently completed that might suit this blog well. … [i] am a young writer looking to find his way and whos[e] biggest source of inspiration are the beats.

Ginsberg sketch (right, click for extremely high-res) and poem entitled “A premature ode: to you, my Remington quiet-write” below.

(Thanks, Jared!)

Caryl Strzelecki, fearless leader of Bukowski Gallery, says,

Henry Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994), was a German American poet, novelist and short story writer. Bukowski’s writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles, and is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of marginalized poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, the drudgery of work, and horseracing. A prolific author, Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories, and six novels, eventually having over 60 books in print. He is often remembered as “The Poet Laureate of Skid Row”.

Clearly, Strzelecki is obsessed. He takes Bukowski’s original poetry and adds his own illustrations, coming up with something able to evoke the right feelings without having to read all the words. My favorite is To The Whore Who Took My Poem, pictured above.

[Bukowski Gallery]

Lisa Brawn, the great woodcut artist, just recently added these pieces of William S. Burroughs and a young Allen Ginsberg to her Flickr stream, found here.

This print, simply entitled “Jack Kerouac”, is available in lakeillustration’s Etsy store for $16, plus shipping.

This is a, limited edition, illustration titled – ‘JACK KEROUAC’. It is printed on the finest archival matte canvas paper.

This is a 220gsm Heavyweight canvas textured effect paper. The surface has a canvas texture and the colours of the print, are extremely strong and vibrant.

The print is part of a limited edition of 50 and is an original illustration numbered, signed and titled by hand by the artist.

SIZE OF PRINT : 8.7 inches x 11.5 inches
(22cm x 28.5cm)

Jack Kerouac – Red on Blue [Etsy]