Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Great Regulars: [Allen] Ginsberg's poetry

has the earmarks of what Columbia professor Edward Mendelson has called "encyclopedic" writing (full range of cultural knowledge, commentary on statecraft, starting point of exile or illegality, giants and gigantism, etc.), which also means it's going to be good and bad in about equal measure, since everything goes into an encyclopedia.

from David Kirby: Newsday: His Beat Goes on

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