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Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996.(Review) (book review)
American Prospect, The, July, 2001 by ARDERY, JULIE
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Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996, by Allen Ginsberg. Edited by David Carter. Introduction by Edmund White. HarperCollins, 603 pages, $40.00.
Who could--and would--tell you how author William S. Burroughs ejaculated? Who croaked the verses of William Blake on a thousand campuses and saw in William F. Buckley, Jr., "a future Buddha"? Only Allen Ginsberg, holy and horny, our dear, dirty old poet-celebrity.
From censorship battles over Howl, his first book, in 1956, until his death four decades later, Ginsberg was a busy, public-spirited artist. ...
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