" being asked by Walt Whitman as he eyes the grocery boys.
In one of this author's poems, a child dreams of ridings in cars, hoping "to create / out of his own imagination / the beauty of his wild / forebears -- a mythology / he cannot inherit." This poet confessed: "I want people to bow when they see me and say / he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of / the Creator," in a poem set at his empty new cottage at Berkeley. This poet of "Wild Orphan" experiences the Blakean revelation that "we're not our skin of grime, we're not dread bleak dusty imageless locomotives," upon holding up a "skeleton thick" (*) plant he finds in a railyard, in a poem about an outing with Jack Kerouac. The speaker of a poem by this author of "Transcription of Organ Music" imagines the questions "Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my angel?" being asked by Walt Whitman as he eyes the grocery boys. For 10 points, name this poet who numbered "Sunflower Sutra" and "A Supermarket in California" among the "other poems" published alongside his masterpiece Howl.
In one of this author's poems, a child dreams of ridings in cars, hoping "to create / out of his own imagination / the beauty of his wild / forebears -- a mythology / he cannot inherit."
Allen Ginsberg [or Irwin Allen Ginsberg] 