![]() ![]() ‘Any good I’ve done has been spoiled by bad intentions – the preoccupation with irrelevant and stupid things,’ Pound replied. You showed us who’s making a profit out of war… ‘ Ginsberg said, ‘You have shown us the way, the more I read your poetry, the more I am convinced it is the best of its time. Pound responded to Ginsberg’s declaration saying, ‘A Lot of double talk. And the phrasing of your poems has had a very concrete value for me as reference points for my own perception… in your work, the sequence of verbal images, phrases like “tin flash in he sun dazzle” and “soap-smooth stone posts” – these have given me, in praxis of perception, ground to walk on… Michael Reck wrote up this special occasion in a summer 1968 issue of Evergreen “Ginsberg leaned over to Pound and said, ‘Your thoughts about specific perception and (William Carlos) William’s ‘no idea but in things’ have been a great help to me and many young poets. In 1967, Allen Ginsberg made a visit to Ezra Pound in Italy and discussed the important link between the “Master of Modern” and the beat generation. ![]()
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