Word: poemes
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...Sistine frescoes. For Michelangelo was primarily a sculptor. He himself said so, especially when complaining that he had been forced to paint the Sistine, instead of getting on with the tomb for his tyrannous, charismatic patron, Pope Julius II. "I've grown a goiter at this drudgery," a poem of his on the matter begins, and finishes with the lines...
...BEEN almost 30 years since Beat poet Allen Ginsberg published the poem that first made heads turn in American literary circles. Giinsberg, who finished "Howl" in 1956, was part of an American troupe of writers which included novelists Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs and poets Gregory Corso and Philip Whalen. Known for their experiments with hallucinogens, affection for jazz, dabblings in Buddhism and spontaneous lifestyles, the Beatniks formed one of the major literary movements in the post-modern era. In the midst of the 58-year-old Ginsberg's East Coast tour to promote his new book, Collected Poems...
Ginsberg: Williams helped my work in several ways. I used his idea that things are only symbols of themselves and his attention to precise details. I was also interested in the way Williams gave measurement and structure to the longline poem. This showed up in parts two and three of "Howl...
...called "The Essentials of Modern Prose": "don't stop to think of the words but to see the picture better." The sound is something I here in my ear. There are no rules to that, you've just got to like the sound of the words. I wrote a poem in China called "China Bronchitis." Immediately the title sounded funny because of the sounds. It has sort of a bee-boop sound, and the "a" sound in "China" goes together with the "i" sounds in "bronchitis." But I don't know how you know that. . .it's intuitive...
Crimson: In the last poem of your new book. "Capitol Air," you condemn the political left and the right, Marxists and capitalists. Do you fall on either side of the political spectrum...