Tulsa hosted a recent conference on Bob Dylan & the Beat Generation. The event's title is shared by a book which came out in the Netherlands in 2018. Rock & the Beat Generation chats to its author
It’s more than 20 years old now, but Jaap van der Bent’s article "O Fellow Travelers I Write You a Poem in Amsterdam": Allen Ginsberg, Simon Vinkenoog, and the Dutch Beat Connection, has both a lot of interesting detail and reasons as to why the Beats may not have excited as much interest in Holland as they did elsewhere.
Good old Jaap! I don't think I've seen him since a conference in Brussels in 2015. But he is certainly a key figure in that Dutch/Belgian Beat axis. Thank you for reminding us…
It’s more than 20 years old now, but Jaap van der Bent’s article "O Fellow Travelers I Write You a Poem in Amsterdam": Allen Ginsberg, Simon Vinkenoog, and the Dutch Beat Connection, has both a lot of interesting detail and reasons as to why the Beats may not have excited as much interest in Holland as they did elsewhere.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25112503?read-now=1#page_scan_tab_contents?read-now=1
Thanks! I just read it. Great article.
Good old Jaap! I don't think I've seen him since a conference in Brussels in 2015. But he is certainly a key figure in that Dutch/Belgian Beat axis. Thank you for reminding us…