One thing I've learned just in the past few months is that the “Beat” in Beat Poets wasn’t the musical beat, but beat as in “beat down by life.” Maynard G. Kreb

One thing I've learned just in the past few months is that the “Beat” in Beat Poets wasn’t the musical beat, but beat as in “beat down by life.” Maynard G. Krebs did a lot to distort the reality of what the Beat Poets were about.