Yepez notes that Mexican intellectuals still see American poets as "Beatniks." Talk about a stereotype that's 45-five years out of date! (Of course, American poets think of Spanish poets as bull-fighting flamenco dancers or political refugees from Franco; the only Mexican poet known at all North of the border is O. Paz.) The fallacy behind the fallacy is in seeing an Allen Ginsberg as a sort of know-nothing, primitive poet. Ginsberg, in his own way, was quite erudite.

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Did Kerouac read Edward Dahlberg? It's something I've got to investigate... There's gotta be a connection between those two prose styles.