It's the way I heard it at the time, but apparently not the way Merwin remembered it.
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>From: Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: May 28, 2014 10:34 PM
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>Subject: Re: The Great Poets' Brawl of '68 - according to Charles Simic
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>Oh, I know it's not the same. Just another example of poets behaving
>badly. Trungpa Rinpoche may have been a spiritual leader but was also,
>according to Weinberger at least, an alcoholic swine with a sadistic
>streak. So there is more than one account of issues at Naropa. Maybe
>more than one event, and one where Ginsberg was present?
>
>Ken
>
>On 5/28/2014 10:30 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
>> Different event, known to history as the Great Naropa Poetry War, 1975 (Tom Clark published his version of events by that name in 1980). There's a brief account in http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/04/specials/merwin-own.html. Allen wasn't present at the time.
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