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James
Jun 11, 2013 rated it really liked it
Shelves: poetry, essays
"A few facts to clear up a lot of bullshit" Ginsberg wrote as the first sentence in The Dharma Bums Review (pg. 343). That sentence describes the very feeling of this volume.

These essays are sage-like. Ginsberg is a sage of drugs, Buddhism, sex, random Hindu mantras, Kerouac, Burroughs, Whitman, Blake. Ginsberg is the anti-Christ of a corrupt bureaucratic-neoconservative-totalitarian system. His guru was Williams Carlos Williams.

The essays rise like smoke from the incense of Ginsberg’s temple
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