After Ginsberg said “That’s all Goodnight,” memorial and tribute pages sprang up all over the Net. Here are a few places where you can go for more elegies, memories and poems:
- Allen’s funeral at Shambhala in New York was a three-hour-plus Buddhist affair, with lots of chanting that danced your corpuscles into biomorphic shape as Allen was helped to find his way to the next Bardo. Orlovsky, Baraka, Corso, Allen’s stepma, Bob Rosenthal all spoke/read. Anne Waldman’s poem seared any loose flesh.
- Literary Kicks’ memorial in the form of “an extract from the BEAT-L mailing list, an internet forum dedicated to the discussion of Beat literature run by Bill Gargan of Brooklyn College, from the days immediately before and after the news of Allen Ginsberg’s death.
- “Goodbye, Buddha Poet,” a collection of poems & memories from the patti smith babelogue.
- The GuestPad Web memorial, where you can leave your own remembrances and musings, or browse through others.
