This was Allen Ginsberg, Gordon Ball declared after recounting
intimate moments with the cultural icon and beloved Beat Generation
poet on East Hill Farm, outside Cherry Valley, New York.
During the late 1960s, when peace, drugs, and free love were direct
challenges to conventional society, Allen Ginsberg, treasurer of
the Committee on Poetry, Inc., funded what he hoped was a haven for
comrades in distress in rural upstate New York. First described as
an uninspiring, dilapidated four-bedroom house with acres of
untended land, including the graves of its first residents, East
Hill Farm became home to those who sought pastoral enlightenment in
the presence of Ginsberg's brilliance and generosity.
A self-declared member of a ragtag group of urban castoffs,
including Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Herbert Huncke, and the
mythic Barbara Rubin, farm manager Ball tended to a non-stop flurry
of guests, chores, and emotional outbursts while also making time
to sit quietly with Ginsberg and discuss poetry, Kerouac, sex, and
America's war in Vietnam.
In honest and vivid prose, Ball offers a rare intimate glimpse of
the poetic pillar of the Beat Generation as a striving and
accessible human being at home on the farm and in the world.
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