I just heard some sad news: Allen Ginsberg has been diagnosed with an inoperable case of liver cancer. Doctors expect the disease will be fatal within four to twelve months. More detailed information is available at Wired News.This article is part of the Beat News series. The next post in the series is Beat News: April 4 1997. The previous post in the series is Beat News: February 28 1997.
The latest word is that Allen Ginsberg had a stroke or some other serious complication, following the news yesterday that he is dying of cancer. Before this, I'd heard that he was back at home but having a rough time ... and writing poems, meditating and meeting with friends. A guy named Sean wrote to me with a URL for an Allen Ginsberg Prayer Page.
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This article is part of the Beat News series. The next post in the series is Beat News: April 11 1997. The previous post in the series is Beat News: April 4 1997.
This has been a frustrating week for me, because my many life responsibilities -- mainly my job, my family, and also an anthology of web fiction I've been working on that's way past deadline -- made it impossible for me to devote as much time as I wished I could to coordinating Allen Ginsberg memorial information, creating my tribute page and updating its list of URL's, and, mainly, answering the hundreds and hundreds of touching and fascinating emails I received (which I'm This article is part of the Beat News series. The next post in the series is Beat News: May 20 1997. The previous post in the series is Beat News: April 5 1997.
