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A review by miagoth
Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber by Allen Ginsberg
the quality of poems in this collection varies tremendously (if there is any to begin with). some of the poems that focused on non political topics were outright horrendous e.g. love comes:
"He fucked me in the East
he fucked me in the West
he fucked me South
my cock in his mouth
he fucked me North
No sperm shot forth"
the political poems such as "america" and "death to van gogh's ear!" were drastically better, substantially speaking. still found them a little terse and obselete; alot of it felt like continuous angry rambing against capitalism and there was an absurd amount of name-dropping, causing the poems to lose coherence.
overall, I could see the relevance of ginsberg in his time and understand the acclaim he receives but I personally couldn't resonate with this collection at all.
"He fucked me in the East
he fucked me in the West
he fucked me South
my cock in his mouth
he fucked me North
No sperm shot forth"
the political poems such as "america" and "death to van gogh's ear!" were drastically better, substantially speaking. still found them a little terse and obselete; alot of it felt like continuous angry rambing against capitalism and there was an absurd amount of name-dropping, causing the poems to lose coherence.
overall, I could see the relevance of ginsberg in his time and understand the acclaim he receives but I personally couldn't resonate with this collection at all.