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"een lange brief van Allen Ginsberg zelf "
[Collection] Autograph letter signed, to Luuk GRUWEZ. [New York] 18 Dec 1973.
2 handwritten pages, each on verso of a vintage poster ?Veterans and Reservists to End the War in Vietnam / New York Workshop in Nonviolence Peace Illumination Walk, 1966?, in original envelop, stamped andw send by airmail
* Belgian writer and poet Luuk Gruwez (born 9 August 1953) had sent Ginsberg an essay in which he analysed Ginsbergs ?Poem Rocket? (first published in Kaddisj). Ginsberg?s answer written on verso of posters for an anti-Vietnamwar ?walk? and benefit for action Vietnames children: ?Dear Luuk ? While reading your essay I took following notes to help clarify affirm of straighten out yr ? perceptions; [?] Death?s movie is life. Pythagoras ? ?Everything we see when awake is death: when asleep, dream.? A Buddhist view in a way ? Life as an optical illusion, Maya ? based on theory of 5 ?Skandas? or 5 ?Heaps? or aggregates forming the illustion. A good deal of the poem is humor & intelligent conjecture. The boldness of the action may be equated with ?Visionary? but I was experiencing ordinary humorous consciousness , [?] I mean there was nog instant psychedelic afflatus or illumination present during composition. Just freedom of imagination. However your essay looks very closely at the poem & understands it nicely. I had thought the meaning was obvious & needed less complex explanation. But thank you for your real understanding. Just write simpler! ? Love Allen / I can?t take time to comment much on my own poems or I wont write poems.?
Added: * 2 autograph letters, signed by Luuk Gruwez tot Simon Vinkenoog, (in Dutch) dated ?Deerlijk, 4 maart / 13 april 1974). Gruwez inquires for documentation on Allen Ginsberg and the Beat generation in general (asking for adresses) in preparation for a reading on Ginsberg, translations and of his poems and a thesis he intends to write: ?Le poète maudit en de beat-generation?.
** Original typed letter signed from Simon Vinkenoog to Luuk Gruwez (in Dutch), dated: Amsterdam, 17.4.74. 1 p., in the original envelop.
Added: * 2 autograph letters, signed by Luuk Gruwez tot Simon Vinkenoog, (in Dutch) dated ?Deerlijk, 4 maart / 13 april 1974). Gruwez inquires for documentation on Allen Ginsberg and the Beat generation in general (asking for adresses) in preparation for a reading on Ginsberg, translations and of his poems and a thesis he intends to write: ?Le poète maudit en de beat-generation?.
** Original typed letter signed from Simon Vinkenoog to Luuk Gruwez (in Dutch), dated: Amsterdam, 17.4.74. 1 p., in the original envelop.
€ 1.150
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