While travelling to New York City and New England in the mid-70’s, Gérald Leblanc discovered the writings of a number of American poets of the counter-cultural movement. Leblanc was fascinated by the intense discussions surrounding the works of militant poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. His discovery of a generation of social protest writers would become the foundation for most of Leblanc’s poetic works. In this study, I first examine the influence of Ginsberg, a central figure from whom Leblanc borrowed numerous formal and thematic elements, including onomastic allusions to the community of poets, a spiritualist lexicon inspired by Ginsberg’s Buddhist references and a strong sense of the poet’s militancy among his peers. The second part of this paper is devoted to the later reading of American protest poet Hakim Bey, whose notion of cartography became so important in Leblanc’s work.