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INTERVIEWER
Do you feel you're in command when you're writing?
GINSBERG
Sometimes I feel in command when I'm writing. When I'm in the heat of some truthful tears, yes. Then, complete command. Other times—most of the time not. Just diddling away, woodcarving, getting a pretty shape; like most of my poetry. There's only a few times when I reach a state of complete command. Probably a piece of Howl, a piece of Kaddish, and a piece of The Change. And one or two moments of other poems.
INTERVIEWER
By command do you mean a sense of the whole poem as it's going, rather than parts?
GINSBERG
No—a sense of being self-prophetic master of the universe.
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| John Ashbery, Basil Bunting, William S. Burroughs, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Robert Creeley, Jean Genet, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Ezra Pound, Arthur Rimbaud, William Carlos Williams, Thomas Wolfe, William Blake, Martin Buber, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gregory Corso, Paul Cézanne, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A. E. Housman, Thomas De Quincey, Christopher Smart, Walt Whitman |
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