![]() ![]() ![]() I won’t quarrel with his forms here anymore: by faithful love he’s made them his own, and by many years practice arrived at sufficient condensation of idea, freedom of fancy, phrase modernity, depth of death-vision, & clarity of particular contemporary attention to transform the old “lyric” form from an inverted fantasy to the deepest actualization of his peaceful mortal voice…” ![]() “Confronting my father’s poems at the end of his life, I weep at his meekness and his reasons, at his wise entrance into his own mortality and his silent recognition of that pitiful Immensity he records of his own life’s Time, his father’s life time, & the same Mercy his art accords to my own person. Louis Ginsberg, Allen’s father, a school-teacher and himself an accomplished poet.įrom Allen’s notes following the 1992 gathering of Louis’ Collected Poems: Louis Ginsberg and Allen Ginsberg Miami, Florida, December 1969 ![]()
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