Allen Ginsberg — "I had this funny idea, yeah what if there were peace. yeah you know then how are…"
I had this funny idea, yeah what if there were peace. yeah you know then how are they ever going to clean it up you know the disorder that's been created by the Serbians. and by Muslims who have blood on their hands and the Croatians all of them have blood on their hands... who's ever going to disentangle all the confusion rubble that's been created by the war you know they they destroyed law they destroyed families they destroyed communities how's it ever going to get put together again even if there were peace.
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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.
