Pull My Daisy

by Jack Kerouac, Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie

Beat GenerationMotion PictureExperimentalMotion picturesBeats (Persons)

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About this book

Pull My Daisy is a short film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation; Kerouac also provided improvised narration. It starred poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso. The book is an illustrated transcript of the film's narration.

Themes & subjects

Beat GenerationMotion PictureExperimentalMotion picturesBeats (Persons)Pull my daisy (Motion picture)

Characters & people

Setting

1959

About the author

Jack Kerouac

12 March 1922 – 21 October 1969

Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.