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So beautiful and despite being utterly obsessed with The Beats I actually didn't know that Allen's father was also a poet. Perhaps it's because, "The Beats" was

So beautiful and despite being utterly obsessed with The Beats I actually didn't know that Allen's father was also a poet. Perhaps it's because, "The Beats" was just something Allen invented but I suppose that remains to be seen at this point.

zabzonk 4y ago
To be somewhat pedantic, it was actually Kerouac who came up the the name "Beat Generation", as he did for so many other things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation#Origin_of_name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation#Origin_of_name