Poetics, Disembodied

[BICKMAN MARTIN]

Just to add to Don Larsson's tribute, I want to say how peaceful and
gentle a man Allen was--while Tom Hayden et. al. set up the demonstrators
in Chicago to get their heads cracked in the service of the cause,
Ginsberg went out to try to pacify the situation, and discourage violent
confrontation.  He was already ready to come into my classroom gratis to
talk lovingly and insightfully about favortie influences, such as Hart
Crane, WCW, Whitman.  May he rest as he lived, in peace.
Marty Bickman

On Mon, 7 Apr 1997 LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU wrote:

> 
> Just a note to mark the passing of Allen Ginsburg, one of TRP's admitted
> inspirations (along with Kerouac, et al.).
> A very Sixties moment--sitting in an auditorium at the feet of the Bard,
> all hair and robe and sandals and beads, leading everyone in a chant
> to Siva on his harmonium.
>  
> The next time I saw him up close was at an academic lit. meeting where he
> had a neatly trimmed beard, a three-piece suit and looked (but didn't
> talk) like a professor of economics.
> 
> Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
>