Hi Paul,
(I don't know why it is but I can never get your messages to appear below
mine on my screen as I'm typing! So it's a b****r trying to be exact, trying
to remember with precision what you've written!). Grrr!!!!
However, I accept you recall more of Ginsberg that I (and it might be that I
should have browsed thro the whole of Howl before I replied! Sorry.). I
guess a Homage does need the reader to keep moving between one and the other
with a more-knowing grin each time they do so!).
It could still be, tho, that the hetrosexualness of the poem could make it
difficult for some readers (like me, for instance) who initially consider
Ginsberg to be homosexual and who might, therefore, not be helped to find
the echoes, to make the link.
Does the link (the "homage-ness) matter? If it does then a footnote might
make it clear... I mean my first impressions of the poem - if I were asked
in the pub what it was about - would be "Oh, it's about communism and
sex..." and then I might add "and it ends with some mention of making
babies..."
How much do you want your reader to make connections to Ginsberg's Howl?
Bob






>From: paul murphy <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: poem
>Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:32:29 +0000
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