[Gay State Conservative]

If I was Jewish and found that this malodorous clown was being heralded by a Jewish museum I'd demand that he be declared an honorary atheist or Buddhist or something.

[Kriggerel]

I respectfully beg to differ. As a person, who is both a lover of poetry and a published poet myself, I consider Ginsberg to be one of the truly great poets that America has produced, and I am absolutely not ashamed to admit it.

I have always preferred to focus most of my regard for Ginsberg on his work rather than on the lifestyle that he chose to live. Conservative or liberal, many writers and artists make poor choices in their personal lives, and indeed some can be or have been quite repulsive in their own ways.

Al Capp and Ernest Hemingway immediately come to mind for examples of more conservative writers, who were nevertheless not exactly all sunshine and roses in their personal lives.

[massatoosits]

“malodorous clown”....best put down of the year so far...