"The way to point to the existence of the universe is to see one
thing directly and clearly and describe it. . . . If you see
something as a symbol of something else, then you don't experience
the object itself, but you're always referring it to something else
in your mind. It's like making out with one person and thinking
about another." -Ginsberg speaking to his writing class at Naropa
Institute, 1985 With "Howl" Allen Ginsberg became the voice of the
Beat Generation. It was a voice heard in some of the best-known
poetry of our time-but also in Ginsberg's eloquent and extensive
commentary on literature, consciousness, and politics, as well as
his own work. Much of what he had to say, he said in interviews,
and many of the best of these are collected for the first time in
this book. Here we encounter Ginsberg elaborating on how speech, as
much as writing and reading, and even poetry, is an act of art.
Testifying before a Senate subcommittee on LSD in 1966; gently
pressing an emotionally broken Ezra Pound in a Venice pensione in
1967; taking questions in a U.C. Davis dormitory lobby after a
visit to Vacaville State Prison in 1974; speaking at length on
poetics, and in detail about his "Blake Visions," with his father
Louis (also a poet); engaging William Burroughs and Norman Mailer
during a writing class: Ginsberg speaks with remarkable candor,
insight, and erudition about reading and writing, music and fame,
literary friendships and influences, and, of course, the culture
(or counterculture) and politics of his generation. Revealing,
enlightening, and often just plain entertaining, Allen Ginsberg in
conversation is the quintessential twentieth-century American poet
as we have never before encountered him: fully present, in
pitch-perfect detail.
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