I’ve read and written a lot of poetry. I lived around columbia U and went to school there and read poetry at the west end.
My friends from the period who knew nothing of poetry thought ginsberg was great. I though ginsberg was a babbling idiot. In prose I thought mailer was a babbling idiot too.
But that’s just me.
None of the “fans” have picked up on my allusion to Capote’s put down of Kerouac in an earlier post...makes me think that the fans are the ones who are not so well read..