Playbill
July, 1959
Following up last month's statement by Jack Kerouac, The Origins of the Beat Generation, this July issue of Playboy offers The Sound of Beat, a clutch of poems by Kerouac and two of his beatnik cronies, Gregory Corso and Allen (Howl) Ginsberg. This poetry complements a feature on The Coffee Houses of America, those interesting little java joints where beat verse is often recited and sometimes written. From one such coffee house we also gained a delightful dividend -- peppery Yvette Vickers, this...
