Beatdom #23 - the Environment issue

The 23rd issue of Beatdom is all about the environment. We have essays on William S. Burroughs' ecological views, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's ecopoetics, the pastoral poetry of Allen Ginsberg, and much more. This issue also features poems, reviews, and interviews, all of it relating to the Beat Generation.

Here is a list of contents:

Essays

• Homo Sap, the Ugly Animal: Ghost of Chance as Burroughs’ Ultimate Environmental Statement, by David S. Wills
• How Green Were His Values: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Environmental Poetry, by Ryan Mathews
• The Beats and an Ecological Awareness, by Peter Oehler
• Nature, the Self, and its Redemption in the Pastoral Poems of Allen Ginsberg, by Jonas Faust
• My Bohemian Fling is Over: When Gregory Corso Almost Stopped Being Beat, by Kurt Hemmer
• Jack Micheline: The Last Bohemian Poet, by Gerald Nicosia
• The Epic Concatenation of William Buck, by Tom Cantrell
• A Derridian Exploration into Allen Ginsberg’s Archive(s), by Alexandre Ferrere
• Turning Right on the Beat Road: Neo-Conservatives Reading Kerouac, by Rob Johnson,
• Kerouac and Family, by Gerald Nicosia
• Lawrence on Lawrence: Ferlinghetti on D.H., by Ryan Mathews
• A Beat Out of Time: The Growing Relevance of Bob Kaufman, by Matz McLaughlin

Interviews

• Bill Morgan: Keeper of the Sacred Scrolls, by Leon Horton
• Neeli Cherkovski: To Catch a Moment in Time, by Leon Horton

Poetry

• The Crowning Race, Ron Myers
• Acceleration (or Is this what tipping point feels like?), by Wayne McCallum
• Step on April Steps, by Neeli Cherkovski

Reviews

• Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness
• The Beats and the Academy: A Renegotiation