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William "Bill" Cannastra (1922–1950) was a member of the early Beat Generation scene in New York. He was a "wild man" figure that the writers in the group found interesting, similar to their fascination with Neal Cassady. Characters based on Bill Cannastra were included in both the John Clellon Holmes novel ''Go'' (as "Agatson") and Jack Kerouac's ''Visions of Cody'' (as "Finistra"). He is also described in Allen Ginsberg's "Howl". ==Life== William Cannastra was one of two sons born to a wealthy, aristocratic mother and a machinist father who had emigrated from Italy.〔Online: ( Letters from Thomas )〕 "The Cannastras lived on Schenectady's Pennsylvania Avenue, a tree-lined street in the shadows of the Mount Pleasant ballfields. Young Bill, who had the yearnings of a career in the art world, instead placated his parents by studying at Harvard Law School. In the summer of 1949, when he moved to New York City to further pursue his studies, Haverty went with him." 〔 Bill Cannastra and Joan Haverty met at an artists' colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts when she was 19 years old. He was "vacationing as a scallop-boat fisherman", according to Haverty's biographical sketch in ''Women of the Beat Generation''. It goes on to say, "She followed Bill to Manhattan at the end of the summer of 1949, and there she hung on to a precarious but happy existence, reveling in her seamstress job, window-peeping at night with Bill on the streets of New York ..." 〔Knight, Brenda. ''Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution''. ISBN 1-57324-138-5, p. 87〕 According to Ellis Amburn: "Joan sometimes dressed in drag as a sailor and joined Cannastra in kinky games, peeping through windows."〔Amburn, Ellis ''Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac'' 1998, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-20677-1 p. 152〕 The address of Cannastra's loft in Chelsea (now a parking lot) was 125 West 21st Street.〔Online at: (New York Songlines pages )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill Cannastra」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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