Sept. 8, 1959: This is the fourth part of a transcript of testimony by “Holy Barbarians” author Lawrence Lipton before the the Los Angeles Police Commission on the Gas House, the Beat hangout in Venice.  Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here.

"It is one of the basic tenets again of our way of life that we believe that the art of poetry must once more become oral."