“The technique of simultaneousness introduced in poetry by Apollinaire consists in joining the events, not by giving them an order of place and time but by registering them successively as they come to mind in the presence of a given face, or a given idea, or a given recollection of a person. It has been said in a more elaborate way, by (James) Joyce it has now been used by many, and it is used also by Ginsberg..
(from “A Presentation of Allen Ginsberg’s Poems”
“In a vast hall in the Village, crowded with the curious, Ginsberg and I met in New York to read together, each some of his own poems. I believe I have returned this evening – and I am proud of it – the tribute of brotherly enthusiasm that he wanted then, through his kindness, to offer to me.”
(ibid)
Ron Padgett tells a story – “New York, circa 1965. We (Ted Berrigan and I) saw some amazing things together. We saw the venerable Giuseppe Ungaretti reach down into his pants and pluck out a pubic hair, hold it up and exclain, “C’est blanc!“. Ungaretti was making a contribution to the pubic hair collection being assembled by Allen Ginsberg to give to Ed Sanders, who was selling unusual literary items in his mail-order catalog”
Andrew Wylie, Ungaretti’s early translator is now Allen’s literary agent.
Bill Morgan on Louis and Edith (his father and stepmother) and Allen in Venice – “They met Ungaretti on the Piazetta San Marco in the moonlight and it was a spectacular way to end their vacation.”
Giuseppe Ungaretti died 42 years ago on this day.
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