Question
A “New Year’s Song” written by a member of this group concludes by describing the mind turned off as “madness, or a beginning?” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this group that included the poet of an “Exercise in Love,” Diane di Prima, who titled one of her poetry collections for being the “Memoirs” of being part of this group.
ANSWER: Beatniks [accept Beat Generation]
[10m] An African-American member of the Beat generation with this surname was compared to Rimbaud for taking a Buddhist “vow of silence.” A playwright with this surname and first name George collaborated with Moss Hart on You Can’t Take it With You and The Man Who Came to Dinner.
ANSWER: Kaufman [accept Bob Kaufman or George Kaufman]
[10e] Diane di Prima later went on to become the poet laureate of this central city of the Beat Generation whose City Lights Bookstore first published Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl.”
ANSWER: San Francisco [or SF]
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