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^^^Its funny isn't it how Ginsberg could be a good editor of other peoples work, but could never apply it to himself. If memory serves (and God help me it's a bit iffy at the best of times), I recall having a drunken rant on here aeons ago about how Ginsberg's embracing of the hippie culture basically killed off his poetic mojo, and let to an endless tide of let-it-all-hang-loose-man idiocy, not to mention him crafting painfully bad "lyrics" to his songs.
Poor Allen - the "poetry with harmonium" genre was pretty much sewn up by Nico (gimme Deutsche gloom to sunny San Fran vibes anyday), and his adoption of Buddhism just seemed to make him increasingly woolly.
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