Arts & Culture
Psychedelic Aesthetics in Poetry and 1960s Counterculture
Quick fact
Poet Allen Ginsberg, a Beat figure, openly used psychedelics and believed they expanded consciousness, directly influencing his later poetry such as 'Wales Visitation'.
Why this is interesting
You know the swirl of colors on a sixties album cover, but did you know that poets were also writing in that hallucinatory style? What happens when language itself becomes a psychedelic trip?