Knights of the Road
Tom Clark
- This is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris by James Campbell
Vintage, 320 pp, £7.99, May 2000, ISBN 0 09 928269 0
When Allen Ginsberg’s Beat vision-quest came through England in the spring of 1965, I was appointed by this famous renegade minstrel to set down his legend for the Paris Review. Ginsberg’s last words in our interview came in response to an inquiry about the role of command in the compositional process. Sometimes when he was at work on his poems, he declared radiantly, he was overcome by ‘a sense of being self-prophetic master of the universe’.
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