“But the beat generation's idolatry of the primitive is not a goon's lust for blood and thunder; it is a quest for the personal, the intuitive, the immediate, the spontaneous, the unthought.”

About John Clellon Holmes

Author • American

John Clellon Holmes was an American author, poet, and professor, best known as a key chronicler of the Beat Generation. His 1952 novel, Go, is considered the first published work to capture the spirit and characters of...