Ginsbergian

Seasonal adjustment Ah, the autumn statement – or Ginsbergian seasonal economic howl, as we shall surely come to know it over the next six at current and almost certainly incorrect estimates years of darkness.

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That said, I am of the mind that there are two models, both effective: the Ginsbergian and the Cageian.

Kenneth Goldsmith says that utilitarian poetry fails as art : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

But with the crimes of the current administration and the blood on its hands, I have no choice but to take a Ginsbergian route of engagement.

Kenneth Goldsmith says that utilitarian poetry fails as art : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Similarly, Howl is worried about presenting a poem at the heart of its film so we hear Franco reciting it in a Ginsbergian manner, we see grainy black and white footage of Ginsberg reading it to an audience for the first time, we watch animated imaginings of the action of the poem and we examine it legally as the poem is dissected in a trial where the good lawyer is played by Jon Hamm and the bad lawyer who thinks it is vulgar is embodied by a hapless David Strathairn.

Michael Giltz: DVDs: "Downton Abbey" Frothy Fun Michael Giltz 2011

Similarly, Howl is worried about presenting a poem at the heart of its film so we hear Franco reciting it in a Ginsbergian manner, we see grainy black and white footage of Ginsberg reading it to an audience for the first time, we watch animated imaginings of the action of the poem and we examine it legally as the poem is dissected in a trial where the good lawyer is played by Jon Hamm and the bad lawyer who thinks it is vulgar is embodied by a hapless David Strathairn.

Michael Giltz: DVDs: "Downton Abbey" Frothy Fun Michael Giltz 2011