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John Clellon Holmes (New York, 12 marzo 19262 marzo 1988) è stato un poeta statunitense.

Docente universitario all'Università dell'Arkansas e alla Yale, il suo scritto Go, del 1952, è considerato il primo in assoluto del genere beat.

Fondamentali per la sua formazione letteraria fu l'amicizia con Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, e Allen Ginsberg.

Fu Jack Kerouac a coniare il termine Beat Generation quando, rivolgendosi all'amico, esclamò: "You know, this is really a beat generation" (lo sai, questa è davvero una beat generation).

L'espressione venne ripresa, poi, da Holmes in un suo articolo, dal titolo Questa è la Beat Generation, pubblicato il 16 novembre del 1952 sul New York Times Magazine (a pag. 10). Nell'articolo egli attribuiva la paternità del termine beat a Kerouac, il quale, a sua volta, la attribuì a Herbert Huncke.

  • Go (1952)
  • The Horn (1958)
  • Get Home Free (1964)
  • Nothing More to Declare (1967)
  • The Bowling Green Poems (1977)
  • Death Drag: Selected Poems 1948-1979 (1979)
  • Visitor: Jack Kerouac in Old Saybrook (1981)
  • Gone in October: Last Reflections on Jack Kerouac (1985)
  • Displaced Person: The Travel Essays (1987)
  • Representative Men: The Biographical Essays (1988)
  • Passionate Opinions: The Cultural Essays (1988)
  • Dire Coasts: Poems (1988)
  • Night Music: Selected Poems (1989)

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