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...matter for ambitious "new journalists," the Beat Poets had already shaken the literary establishment by rejecting an academic formalism rooted in the poetry of Eliot and Pound. They replaced this sterile stuff with a free-wheeling experiential American poetic idiom inspired by the more cautious William Carlos Williams. Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," with its Whitmanesque catalogues of the poet's own undeniably hellish experience, became a banner around which the new American poets rallied...
Seventeen years later, Ginsberg finds himself alone, many of his closest friends dead, most of his contemporaries retreating into a more reserved, intellectualized version of a poetry he helped to create. The Fall Of America continues Ginsberg's undaunted quest for his own separate but absolute reality. ("Iron Horse," along with the earlier "Wichita Vortex Sutra," is to be read as part of The Fall...) While he is less personal now, he never forgets, as William Burroughs puts it, "what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing." So, even in their many weaker moments, the poems...
Cairnie has covered the walls of his small shop with photographs of some of his more celebrated patrons--Robert E. Bly '50, Allen Ginsberg, James Tate and Robert T.S. Lowell...
...Ginsberg once spent an almost unbroken month in Grollier's, reading through its selection of modern poetry and holding readings for its patrons and curious passers...
...petition, drafted by poet-author Allen Ginsberg and Richard Alpert, former assistant professor of Psychology and Education, protests Leary's punishment "as a symbol of society's common anxiety concerning drug abuse...