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...great Hasidic masters.” With respect to James’ reaction to the death of his father, isn’t it a trifle much to call his preoccupation with the bare emptiness of life “half a premonition of Allen Ginsberg??? At least a reference to similar expressions in the works of Nietzsche could have claimed some contextual basis; both James and Nietzsche were concerned with many of the same problems during the same time period. Perhaps this tendency, seen everywhere from popular magazines to university course catalogs, represents an upswing of eclecticism...
...Robert Kelly, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky. “Howl” had just been published to be immediately banned in public and on the airwaves. Rumor had it that Ginsberg had staged a reading on the steps of the Grolier; the police then shut it down. After Ginsberg??s death, a group of us challenged the obscenity ruling. We staged, sponsored by The Boston Phoenix, the first reading of “Howl” on evening radio. The challenge...
...gone on the record as pro-pornography and pro-prostitution. During her time as a columnist on salon.com, she criticized a college date rape controversy as “creakingly passé, victim-centered, [and] anti-male.” She also defended Allan Ginsberg??s membership in the North American Man-Boy Love Association, and called Ginsberg “the apostle of a truly visionary sexuality...
Joining Ginsberg, Graham, Jacques, and Nagourney as IOP fellows this fall are Martin Frost, a former Texas congressman who lost to Howard Dean earlier this year in a bid to chair the Democratic National Committee; Joseph Gaylord, a former counselor to Newt Gingrich (and Ginsberg??s first political boss, Ginsberg said); and Lisa Davis, a former advisor to Bill Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign...
...foolish in the unforgiving, if often capricious, hindsight of the academy. And great works of literature have a way of offending public sensibilities. Note the many points of intersection between “banned books” lists and “great books” courses. Before Allen Ginsberg??s Howl, there is James Joyce’s Ulysses. Well before either come Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, all of which were banned in the United States under the Comstock Law of 1873, prohibiting...