Allen Ginsberg — "I think that's thy poison of poetry and I think that's the poison of political a…"

I think that's thy poison of poetry and I think that's the poison of political activity. As soon as you've got an obligation, you're a prisoner of an obligation, you're no longer actually reacting openly to what you see in front of you as reality.
Allen Ginsberg — Allen Ginsberg Modern · Howl, Beat poet

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About Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

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.

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WFCR Radio Interview

Date: 1986

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