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It's amazing how this collection managed to pull together a cross-section of Ginsberg's work, some of it great, that's convincing me he's no longer a favorite of mine. The sequencing here is awful, the quality varied, common threads illegible beyond what themes he always had in mind.

Howl kicks ass and sits around this length, if a tad longer. That's because those pieces were meant to sit next to one another.

Okay to amazing poems by NAMBLA’s strongest soldier

"Money! Money! Money! shrieking mad celestial money of illusion! Money made of nothing, starvation, suicide! Money of failure! Money of death!
Money against Eternity! and eternity’s strong mills grind out vast paper of Illusion!"

"A war-creating Whore of Babylon bellowing over Capitols and Academies!"

"and their long editorials on the fence of the screaming negro attacked by ants crawled out of the front page!"

"all Owners! Owners! Owners! with obsession on property and vanishing Selfhood!"

"sky writers liars in the face of Divinity—fanged butchers of hats and shoes,"

"Elephants of mercy murdered for the sake of an Elizabethan birdcage"

"Puerto Ricans crowded for massacre on 114th St. for the sake of an imitation Chinese-Moderne refrigerator"

"Elephants of mercy murdered for the sake of an Elizabethan birdcage"

"Whitman warned against this “fabled Damned of nations”"

"Tibet should be left alone"

"Van Gogh’s Ear on the currency"

"the world will be destroyed
but I will die only for poetry, that will save the world"

"Man cannot long endure the hunger of the cannibal abstract
War is abstract."

"I have the moan of doves and the feather of ecstasy"

"History will make this poem prophetic and its awful silliness a hideous spiritual music"