Subject: Re: Mostly Off topic.. who am I kidding? Completely Off topic
From: Will Hochman (hochmanw1@owl.southernct.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 10:49:01 EDT
The Beats were very big in Southern Colorado and I'd often have
coffee with a student returning from an exploratory adventure at the
Nairopa Institute in Boulder. Like John, I met Ginsberg a few times.
(I guess that makes us pretty old, eh?) Anyhow, Ginsberg was kiind
and encouraging to me as a yonger East Village poet. My two best
memories of him are sharing the only copy machine in our neighborhood
once just after a small east village rag had published a poem of mine
in the same issue that had a poem from Ginsberg. I was copying my
poem for some friends and told him that being in the same magazine
("The Portable Lower East Side") with him was a privilege. He smiled,
read the poem, smiled some more, and encouraged me strongly. The
second memory is watching him sit at the counter of Christines, a
polish restaurant on First Avenue, enjoying a bowl of borscht. will
PS: Two good books to learn about the beats are the Birth of the Beat
Generation by Steven Watson and Women of the Beat Generation by
Brenda Knight.
-- Will HochmanAssociate Professor of English Southern Connecticut State University 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515 203 392 5024
http://www.southernct.edu/~hochman/willz.html
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