Commentary

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Segue to Ginsberg's "Sunflower Sutra"
the body as text

Van Dyck. Self Portrait with Sunflower. 1632.

Print, Jerusalem, Plate 53 Chapter 3 (Winged muse atop a floating sunflower) 1804-1820.

  Allen 2 (Portrait - Two Polaroids) by Elsa Dorfman,1986. (Poet Allen Ginsberg holding a flower, standing in front of life-size photograph of himself.) www.elsa.photo.net  

      Printing
 

William
Blake

1757 -1827

 

“the Lavish praise
I have
received from
all Quarters
for Inventions
& Drawing
has Generally
been accompanied
by this
he can
conceive
but he
cannot
Execute”

(The Notebook of William Blake)
 

    To the Muses

How have
you left the
ancient love

That bards
of old enjoy'd
in you!

The languid
strings do
scarcely
move!

The sound is
forc'd, the
notes are few!

“I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create”

 (Jersualem)

  Allen Ginsberg Reads Kaddish      Edward Sanders
  A 20th Century American            1968 A History In Verse
  Ecstatic Narrative Poem              (Book Cover)
  (Album Cover)