Word: allens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Allen's method of writing is directly experiential: he tries to graph the movements of the mind during the act of composition. To revise becomes an act of dishonesty. Poetry is then one person talking intimately to another. He believes in the common humanity of his listeners and, a little ingenuously, trusts them...
Here, of course, Allen lays himself open to the charge that he intends mainly to shock. (I"II admit it took a few minutes' chat with the naked Ginsberg to realize shock was hardly his goal.) Actually he finds it far more beautiful to sympathize--and this is how he treats most of what is ugly: the junkie, the leper, the whore, the queer...
...into these possibilities at such length only to say that as far as I can tell, they are not Allen Ginsberg. Well, possibly the last, in part, for Allen apparently feels twice as large because he may and does experience consumate love with both men and women. (Redemption through friendship in a world of enemies is what he hinted at in Howl...
...primarily Allen is a poet and all his life bears relevance to his work. He has been the Moriarty circuit; that is the fodder...
...Allen never quite found that place in the "emotional blackout" of Harvard, but Cambridge is a little happier after a week of his Whitmanic tenderness. The University would do well to allow its guests to set more ample, variable standards of behavior, rather than to insist upon the sometimes artificial protocol of "normal society...