The Ivory Tower

Epitaph for the Beat Generation

Well, it’s all over. Jack Kerouac has gone back to his mother on Long Island. Allen Ginsberg returned to the Village. Gregory Corso was last seen on the Champs Elysées, bound for the Left Bank. And even that un- reluctant radical old dragon of Beat Generation public relations, Kenneth Rexroth, has headed for the warmer waters of the Mediterranean, weary of the bombast.