The Spring 1958 issue of Chicago Re...

The Spring 1958 issue of Chicago Review devot mostly of its pages to writers "From San Francisco," as the section title announced, including work from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners, Michael McClure Kirby Doyle, Philip Lamantia, and Philip Whalen. It l against with a brief statement by dint of Jack Kerouac, "The Origins of bliss in Poetry," in which Kerouac affirmed Ferlinghetti's critique of contemporary academic metrical language describing the writing of the San Francisco Renaissance as "a kind of new-old Zen Lunacy verse writing whatever ...