Abstract
I look out the window of my apartment in the Mission District of San Francisco, and listen for the beat between the drums. Many years have passed since the center of artistic and bohemian life shifted from North Beach to this Latino neighborhood, where poets and painters from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Colombia, New York, Texas, Los Angeles, and Fresno revitalized the city after most of the Beat generation writers went back East. Nevertheless, the reverberations of that cultural movement still can be felt in storefront galleries, bookstores, and cafés around the Mission--though they fade with each artist forced to relocate because of rising rent. More than a decade after the Loma Prieta earthquake, this diverse community is experiencing yet another shift. Bob Kaufman, an often invisible and ignored Beat, lived here once, when his North Beach already had given way to the kind of upheaval transforming the Mission today.
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