A Literary Influence Is Never

It Was Difficult Being A Teacher And Out Of The Closet In The '50s. By The Time I Retired, The English Department Was Proud Of Having A Gay Poet Of A Certain Minor Fame. It Was A Very Satisfactory Change!

Direct Me Gods, Whose Changes Are All Holy, To Where It Flickers Deep In Grass, The Moly.

How Sociable The Garden Was. We Ate And Talked In Given Light. The Children Put Their Toys To Grass All The Warm Wakeful August Night.

Ginsberg's Collected Poems Contains A Wonderful Poem About Making It With Neal Cassady.

I Think Most Men, Heterosexual And Homosexual, Enjoy Being Considered Sexual Objects.