00:00When I arrived in San Francisco, it was just a little over five years since World War II ended.
00:10And it took all that time for a new culture to come together in America.
00:22It took five years, five or six years for all these new elements of culture to come together and congeal
00:32into a totally new post-war culture.
00:38And San Francisco was still the last frontier.
00:41And it was in San Francisco where it was happening, not in New York.
00:46San Francisco is where the new poetry came together and was first articulated by the beat poets.
00:55Like Allen Ginsberg reading Howl for the first time in San Francisco, the book being published by City Lights Books
01:02in San Francisco.
01:03Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl transformed American poetry and directly affected the narrative of history, the narrative of American history.
01:17Poetry and America, cultural America, was never the same afterwards.
01:26Hurrah! Revolution!
01:29Revolution!
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