10-06-2012, 11:53 AM
I'm not sure what might be from Ginsberg. Most of the allusions are very subtle, and most are references to Crane's poems about other poets. The allusion to Dickinson is in only one word. Crane travelled to the places these people travelled, and wrote about them in an "epic" poem called "The Bridge". A new myth of America. And my poem is about my experiences in these places, compared to what he says in his poems. If anything, I hoped maybe I could get some people interested in Crane; other than a nearly obscure movie about him that came out last year, there's not much attention paid to him compared to the other American poets I mentioned.