One poem by this man asks "When did you look at your skin and decide you were an impotent dirty old locomotive?"
One poem by this man asks "When did you look at your skin and decide you were an impotent dirty old locomotive?" In another work, this poet questions a figure who watched "the boat disappear on the black waters of / Lethe?" before asking Garcia Lorca what he is doing down by the watermelons and noticing Walt Whitman eying the grocery boys. This poet of "Sunflower Sutra" and "A Supermarket in California" described his grief at the death of his mother Naomi in a poem titled after a Jewish prayer. For 10 points, identify this American poet of "Kaddish," who said he saw "the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" in "Howl."
One poem by this man asks "When did you look at your skin and decide you were an impotent dirty old locomotive?"
Irwin Allen {Ginsberg}