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...Ginsberg, it seems, has reached the logical--and just plain gross--culmination of that legacy with the publication of his latest collection of poems, White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985. The book has attracted attention as Ginsberg's "dirtiest" collection, and it is a well-deserved reputation...
While the gay imagery in White Shroud may account for the book's notoriety, it does not account for the book's significance. Ginsberg presents an accessible and fascinating collection of new verse that is worth reading, at the very least because it is a historical document of what Ginsberg terms the "post-beat modernist" generation...
...Ginsberg is becoming very "post"; he is 60 years old, and his poems reflect a morbid fear of old age. He also fears his own obselescence. Ginsberg previously penned two different poems entitled "Don't Grow Old," and that is the overriding theme in White Shroud. "I can't get it up/...Growing old in my heaven," he writes in "Airplane Blues." He is clearly self-conscious in his poems, for he is both old enough and important enough to refer to himself several times. Increasingly, Ginsberg's poetry is rooted in his past, as he alludes to "Howl," "Aunt...
...DREAM-LIKE QUALITY permeates Ginsberg's work; and he gives us a poem about daydreaming while he exercises, another poem that William Carlos Williams dictated to Ginsberg during his sleep and finally the nightmarish "Black Shroud...
...spirit of Williams and Walt Whitman are evident in Ginsberg's rhythmically rich verse. The speech patterns of these poets are ultimately translated by Ginsberg into his beloved blues lyrics (complete with music). Poems/songs like "Do the Meditation Rock" demonstrate not only his complex creativity, but a well-developed sense...