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Documentary of the final performance of Allen Ginsbergs̀ 1983 tour of northern Europe. Ginsberg, poet Peter Orlovsky and musician Steven Taylor are shown performing on stage, in interviews with the press, and in everyday scenes around Wuppertal.

Plutonian Ode: Title poem combines scientific info on 24,000-year cycle of the Great Year compared with equal half-life of Plutonium waste, accounting Homeric formula for appeasing underground millionaire Pluto Lord of Death, jack in the gnostic box of Aeons, and Adamantine Truth of ordinary mind inspiration, unhexing nuclear ministry of fear. Following poems chronologies Wyoming grass blues, a punk-rock sonnet, personal grave musing, Manhattan landscape hypertension, lovelorn heart thumps, mantric rhymes, Neruda's tearful Lincoln ode retranslated to U.S. vernacular oratory, Nagasaki Bomb anniversary haikus, Zen Bluegrass raunch, free verse demystification of sacred fame, Reznikoffian filial epiphanies, hot pants Skeltonic doggerel, a Kerouackian New Year's eve ditty, professional homework, New Jersey quatrains, scarecrow haiku, improvised dice roll for high school kids, English rock-and-roll sophistications, an old love glimpse, little German movies, old queen conclusions, a tender renaissance song, ode to hero-flop, Peace protest prophecies, Lower East Side snapshots, national flashed in the Buddhafields, Sapphic stanzas in quantitative idiom, look out at the bedroom window, feverish birdbrain verses from Eastern Europe for chanting with electric bands, Beethovinean ear strophes drowned in rain, a glance at Cloud Castle, poems 1977-1980 end with International new wave hit lyric Capitol Air

Pour Jack Kerouac, le terme " beat " signifie " être, d'une façon non dramatique, au pied de son propre mur ". En 1957, Sur la route devenait le livre-symbole de la liberté, de la contestation des valeurs bourgeoises et de la révolte face à la cupidité du monde. Née à New York de l'amitié entre quatre hommes, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Cassady et Burroughs, la Beat Generation revendiquait des engagements politiques forts et refusait la course à l'argent. De leur vivant, les artistes Beat vivaient l'art comme une continuité, une œuvre commune. Pour la première fois, leurs textes sont ici réunis selon leur vraie vocation et forment un tout cohérent.