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omnium gatherum, n. : a collection of many different, often unsorted, ideas or items. |
Falling in love with the Paris Review DNA project..."INTERVIEWER
Do you feel you're in command when you're writing? GINSBERG Sometimes I feel in command when I'm writing. When I'm in the heat of some truthful tears, yes. Then, complete command. Other times—most of the time not. Just diddling away, woodcarving, getting a pretty shape; like most of my poetry. There's only a few times when I reach a state of complete command. Probably a piece of Howl, a piece of Kaddish, and a piece of The Change. And one or two moments of other poems. INTERVIEWER By command do you mean a sense of the whole poem as it's going, rather than parts? GINSBERG No—a sense of being self-prophetic master of the universe. " Game, set, match. Brilliant, Allen, hysterically, characteristically you, and simply brilliant. Also, this interview with Saul Bellow is amazing. I wish I could excerpt from it. Link here.
Posted: Sunday - May 07, 2006 at 01:07 AM | |