Word: ginsberg
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...name-calling days are probably not over, but in future Poet Allen Ginsberg may be more selective about his targets. In Tucson to give a poetry reading at the University of Arizona, Ginsberg held a typically empurpled news conference; then he began berating Arizona Republic Correspondent Bob Thomas about a story that had appeared in the Tucson Daily Citizen criticizing the poet for his self-proclaimed sexual aberrations. When Thomas finally walked away, the guru followed and shouted a string of obscenities at him. Mother, whose day is celebrated this week, seemed to have a prominent place in the epithets...
...office take that followed left Leven's backers feeling skittish. Benjamin Ginsberg & Sons --one of the two principal backers-- threatened to throw Leven Enterprises out of the building, which Ginsberg owns. But Leven, who himself owns the equipment, furnishings, and stage inside the buildings, refused to go unless he took the whole cast and crew with him. The resulting negotiations turned up in a Boston After Dark article by Larry Stark. So, there it all was, right out there in front of the public. Finally, Leven ended the stalemate by accepting more of the financial responsibility. And so--in accord...
...Beat poets rebelled against both society and the academic, formalist mode of poetry. Three schools of revolutionary poets were founded: the San Francisco school of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gary Snyder; the Black Mountain school of Charles Olson, Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley; and the New York school of Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery. Basically, the San Francisco school represented a fresh imagism combined with oriental influences; the Black Mountain group leaned toward an intellectual eclecticism typical of Ezra Pound's Cantos; and the New York school was surreal and Dadaistic, or more...
...couldn't we go to Union Hall to see Jonny Dix Why did you wrench us away from the turned-down transistors in our bedrooms? Why? Why? Don't you see what you've done. America You made drugs. You made SDS. You made us follow Leary and Ginsberg and Marcuse. You created Haight-Ashbury, you gave us Dylan, you big creep. Why didn't you let us love...
...poems and prose, and is widely quoted, often unconsciously by some people who may think that the title, which has passed into the language, means a vacant lot. The poem is taught in English-lit classes, and could be called the Odyssey or the Divine Comedy of the pre-Ginsberg generation...