Rock and the Beat Generation

Rock and the Beat Generation

Book review #54: Natalie

Tragic muse recovered in collage

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Sep 10, 2025
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Natalie: Natalie Jackson – Voices & Fragments, A Biographical Collage by Robert Dumont (Rosace Publications, 2025)

Review by Jonah Raskin, Chief Book Reviewer

VERY LITTLE KNOWN in her own all-too-brief life, she became a legendary figure in the Beat firmament after her death in 1955. Robert LaVigne had painted her portrait. Allen Ginsberg and others had p…

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I was a teenage Beatnik in the 1950s. More than half a century later I am still a beatnik in spirit.
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