Beatdom 17

The theme for this issue is politics and the journal includes the following articles:

"World Citizen: How Politics Shaped the Travels of Allen Ginsberg, and How Travel Shaped his Politics" by David S. Wills
"The Flying Dutchman: An Overview of LeRoi Jones' Greatest Commentary on the Struggle of the Black Man and Racial Relations in Post-World War America" by Alyssa Cokinis
"Dark Ages" by Stephen Deveraux
"'America': Allen Ginsberg's Hopeful Satire" by Eliot Katz
"Defining Beat: Era, Location, and the Importance of Considering Women" by M. G. Wessels
"Turtle Island: An Eco-Critique of Capitalism" by Elizabeth Lee Reynolds
"Tweet" by Damian Rucci
"Ginsberg and the Machinery of Capitalism: A Political Reading of Howl" by Arianna Garofalo
"Gonzo Personas: Hunter S. Thompson and John G. Clancy" by Frederic B. Wildfang
"Echoes of the Revolution: Diane di Prima and the Beat Generation" by William Nesbitt
"Elegy for Allen" by Eliot Katz
"I'm Watching You Watching Me: The Inversion of the Gaze in Ginsberg's Photographs" by Katie Oates
"Energy and Consciousness" by Robert T. Walker
Review: The Green Ghost: William Burroughs and the Ecological Mind by Chad Weidner