Mind, Heart, and Breath: Embodiment in Allen Ginsberg’s Long-Lined Poetry
Babel A.F.I.A.L.: Aspectos de filología inglesa y alemana November 24, 2023 Elisa Sabbadin
This paper explores Allen Ginsberg’s poetry through the lens of embodiment and corporeality. It shows how, in Ginsberg’s poems, the relationship between the physical and the formal is incredibly tight: indeed, the two often coincide. This paper considers two remarkable examples of embodiment: Kaddish (1961) and poems from Mind Breaths (1977). In Kaddish, physical embodiment is embedded in the...