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...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 hold together well, guided...
...happens, all of these good people are more or less right. But what are they talking about? The Harry Emerson Fosdick-Norman Vincent Peale Reader"! A new rendering of the Kama Sutra with footnotes by Mick Jagger? The Bhagavad-Gita as interpreted by the Rev. Billy Graham? Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Hereafter But Were Afraid to Ask? Not so. They are talking about an illustrated parable concerning a seagull who learns aerobatics. They are talking about a volume so small that Winnie the Pooh could carry it in his hip pocket, and so unfleshly that...
...probably future guru is Allen Ginsberg, now 45, and his Howl ("I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness") is still the best of the genre. Ginsberg made the poet into a folk figure again, and it was Ginsberg, too, who led the trek into Indian sutra land. Such preoccupations have taken more of his time lately than his writing, leaving Gregory Corso as his archdisci-ple. At 41, Corso has a tone a trifle less shrill, decorated with more literary allusions, perhaps more varied rhythmically than Ginsberg's. It is still a prosody deriving directly...
...distrust of theory and doctrine was summed up by Liang K'ai, an artist of the early 13th century, who captured in a few exquisitely jagged brush strokes an illiterate patriarch, howling with glee, tearing up a sutra, or sacred text. It is an Oriental parallel to St. Paul's remark that "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life...
Introduced to Japan from India by way of China, Zen is a sect of Buddhism. Zen's rejection of the written doctrine differentiates it from the other schools of Buddhism. Studying the sutras is part of the process in attaining Nirvana (Enlightenment) for most Buddhist followers, but the practitioner of Zen seeks to attain enlightenment through meditation and contemplation excluding study of the sacred writings. The Sixth Patriarch Tearing up a sutra (only on exhibit till November 25 due to its fragility) graphically depicts this rejection...