Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) Elan that lifts me above the clouds into pure space, timeless, yea eternal Breath transmuted into words Transmuted back to breath in one hundred two hundred years nearly Immortal, Sappho's 26 centuries of cadenced breathing -- beyond time, clocks, empires, bodies, cars, chariots, rocket ships skyscrapers, …
Allen Ginsberg – Kaddish
Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) It leaps about me, as I go out and walk the street, look back over my shoulder. Seventh Avenue, the battlements of window office buildings shouldering each other high, under a cloud, tall as the sky an instant -- and the sky above -- an old …