Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction
Subject: RE: ALLEN GINSBERG LITERA
From: paul.hoy@canrem.com (Paul Hoy)
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Date: Sat, 16 Apr 94 09:27:00 -0400
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 C> All of them deserve tributes but it was Ginsberg who made us sit up and 
 C> listen to the rest of the beat poets.  He is not "overrated" by any 
 C> stretch of the imagination.

 C> By the way, it's "Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb," I am almost 
 C> sure. 

 C> -------------

 C> David Casseres
 C> Exclaimer: Hey!

David,

That's his problem: Ginsberg doesn't really have an imagination in which
to be rated. He's merely an adornment of the sixties, where self-serving
attitudes were couched in self-righteousness. And Ginsberg was the perfect
guy for the job.

Paul Hoy
paul.hoy@canrem.com
 

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