and, given current (justified) concerns about the proliferation of AI (artificial intelligence) – see here – (Donald Trump and Barack Obama seemingly voicing sections of the poem!)


Madness, consuming madness – We continue to recommend Stevan Weine’s recently-published volume, Best Minds – How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry From Madness Here is his digest of it he constructed for Psychiatric Times.
And another shout-out for Etienne Appert‘s richly-engaging Au crépuscule de la Beat Generation
Some recent reviews – here, here and here

Allen’s old address in New York on East 12th Street – not to be pedantic but it was on the corner (close to the corner) not of 12th and Second Avenue but 12th and Avenue A – ok, just nit-picking! – both exterior and interior are lovingly evoked.