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...most people, who went something else...People went a lesser fake of Beauty...We've seen Beauty face to face, one time or another and said," of course, so that's what it's all about, no wonder I was born and had all those secret world feelings. Allen Ginsberg...
These days, Allen Ginsberg meets up with many people who think the Beat Generation consisted entirely of Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and a few zany sycophants who followed them around America's weird roads raising hell, writing poems and novels, drinking beer smoking weed and worse...
...Ginsberg: Yes. That's because I wasn't in the actual war--I was in the media war. So I was just reporting what I could contact with my own senses, which I think was wise. I didn't have to fake going into the war because I was interested in the war's affect on my own and America's consciousness. I stopped with what I was actually experiencing through my senses and maybe only once or twice imagined what it would be like to be a thin-bodied Vietnamese kid blown up by, napalm. I wrote about...
...Ginsberg: Blake is always an inspiration. I once made a recording of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Blake turned me on to the voice in poetry. I once had an interesting psychedelic experience, without drugs, while reading Blake. It was an auditory hallucination of his voice pronouncing "the sunflower and the sick rose." Years later I began working with that to extrapolate tunes and melodies from those tones. I tried to reconstruct what it sounded like when Black orignally sand those words...
...Ginsberg: I like to sing with the Clash, I was on their last album. I've also made some movies with Bob Dylan. I'm supposed to be doing some work with "X" sooner or later. I like the Dead Kennedys and Sting. I ran into Sting at a birthday party for [William] Burroughs last year. Burroughs has had an enormous effect on new wave pop music. There are a lot of bands that use his terms like "soft machine." He's talking on a Laurie Anderson record now. I think that is natural because the poetry runs back...