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Rock and the Beat Generation
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Rock and the Beat Generation

Simon Warner shared an email postcard from UK guitarist Stuart Anthony who, in June, was in London for a live gig with Larry and then in Paris to visit the inspiration for the Apollinaire poem that gives the duo’s most recent album release Mirabeau Bridge its Gallic title…

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Kind Words
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Kind Words

Larry Beckett on Marc Zegans’ Lyon Street: “True poetry: rooted in San Francisco streets and cafés, lovingly evoking the actual, flowering into the myth of California, this collection has the look of a classic.”

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Interview - On Writing American Cycle
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Interview - On Writing American Cycle

Simon Warner’s “Beat Soundtrack #20: Larry Beckett”: Larry Beckett is an American poet, playwright, novelist, songwriter and literary critic. He has had several books of poetry and prose published including Songs and Sonnets, Beat Poetry, and the book-length poems, Paul Bunyan, Wyatt Earp, and Amelia Earhart, which were collected with seven others as the epic American Cycle, a 47-year project, published in April 2021 by Running Wild Press in Los Angeles.

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