Read any American poet today, and you’ll discover the influence of the Beat Generation—a creative movement as original as jazz that launched the great body of works of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and others. Now, in a 4-CD program culled from his many hours of spoken-word recordings on the story of this creative, social, spiritual, and political renaissance, Allen Ginsberg presents The Best Minds of My Generation. Here, listeners will experience his first-person accounts of: How Jack Kerouac perfected the art of spontaneous prose with On the Road (Penguin, 1991) • William S. Burroughs on the evolution of his masterpiece Naked Lunch (Grove Press, 1992) • The surprising cultural impact of Ginsberg’s own poem Howl, and much more.