Further thoughts on the cultural labor of poetry and art. Not merely "is it good?," but "what has it accomplished?"...reviews of recent poetry collections; selected poems and art dealing with war/peace/social change; reviews of poetry readings; links to political commentary (particularly on conflicts in the Middle East); youtubed performances of music, demos, and other audio-video nuggets dealing with peaceful change, dissent and resistance.
Monday, November 24, 2008
"Genitalia=Commerce and Enterprise"/Allen Ginsberg's annotations to the "Waste Land"
During my graduate class on modern American poetry, I proposed the possibility that Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" was a response, at least in part, to T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." And now this little bit of archival research has suggested that Ginsberg has Moloch on his mind while combing through his 1936 edition of Eliot in 1950, around five years before "Howl" was published.
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Yep.
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