Adán asked Ginsberg, ‘Why do you write such bullshit?’ Ginsberg answered, ‘At least I bathe everyday & my feet do not stink!’ Soon thereafter, Ginsberg wrote the following poem about Adán in his book Reality Sandwiches.” Upon seeing each other, they started rounds of insults. His encounter with Ginsberg in a Lima bar in the 1960s illustrates Adán’s disarray. Adán’s alcoholism & inner fragmentation led to a tormented existence alternating between periods in a psychiatric hospital, drinking bouts, & Hermetic enclosure in which he found refuge in his poetry. “Adán’s aristocratic family having fallen into ruin, set him out on a Bohemian journey through shady bars & hotels in Lima where he wrote his poems on napkins, tablecloths, & unfolded cigarette packs in a never-ending traumatic search for identity. I also wanted to share an interesting tidbit from Cornell University about Martín Adán (a founder of Peruvian poetry & the best of the 1920s Latin American avant garde) & Allen Ginsberg (the US beatnik poet). We usually get a wide number of suggestions, but it looks like Peruvian books were difficult to find or haven’t been widely read as we only received 1 suggestion. 1.īefore we get to the vote, I want to thank club member Elke Richelsen who suggested a book this month. Because of this, we’ll be cutting the vote short by a day so just 4 days to vote to ensure we can announce the book in time to read by Nov. We ran into some difficulties so are running late.
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