Chronology Entry
Year
1996
Text
Interview with Allen Ginsberg ; 8.11.1996.
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/ginsberg/interviews.htm.
Alen Ginsberg : First of all, open forum in poetry, rather than a closed forum. It's like when you split the atom, you get energy. So we were following Whitman and William Carlos Williams and the imagists and objectivists in technique, rather than the academic folks who were having a metronomic beat. That happened in painting, poetry, music and all the arts. And that involved candor and spontaneity, spontaneous composition, a classic thing from Tibet, Japan, China, not recognized here as classic because people weren't scholarly enough, so they thought it was some home-made spontaneous prosody, but it was the great tradition of Milarapa, the Tibetan poet.
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/ginsberg/interviews.htm.
Alen Ginsberg : First of all, open forum in poetry, rather than a closed forum. It's like when you split the atom, you get energy. So we were following Whitman and William Carlos Williams and the imagists and objectivists in technique, rather than the academic folks who were having a metronomic beat. That happened in painting, poetry, music and all the arts. And that involved candor and spontaneity, spontaneous composition, a classic thing from Tibet, Japan, China, not recognized here as classic because people weren't scholarly enough, so they thought it was some home-made spontaneous prosody, but it was the great tradition of Milarapa, the Tibetan poet.
Mentioned People (1)
Ginsberg, Allen
(Newark, N.J. 1926-1997 New York, N.Y.) : Dichter
Subjects
Literature : Occident : United States of America