“If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.”
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!
I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
