Allen Ginsberg — "I didn't foresee what you felt—what more hideous gape of bad mouth came first—to…"
I didn't foresee what you felt—what more hideous gape of bad mouth came first—to you—and were you prepared? To go where? In that Dark—that—in that God? a radiance? A Lord in the Void? Like an eye in the black cloud in a dream? Adonoi at last, with you? Beyond my remembrance! Incapable to guess!
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American Beat poet whose Howl (1956) faced an obscenity trial and became a counterculture manifesto.
Closely associated with
Jack Kerouac (Beat novelist, On the Road) and William S. Burroughs (fellow Beat, Naked Lunch).
For an intellectual contrast, see
T.S. Eliot, high-modernist poet of The Waste Land — Ginsberg's open-line confessional Beat verse was a deliberate rejection of Eliot's allusive academic formalism — the two halves of mid-century American poetry.