he actually uses letters which some of his writer friends such as allen ginsberg and edward dahlberg wrote to him. [allen ginsberg] "dear doctor-- "in spite of the grey secrecy of time "and my own self-shuttering doubts in these rainy days, "i would like you to know i'm in paterson. "i hope you will welcome this from an unknown young poet, to an unknown old poet, who live in the same county." i had written a few letters to him. he wrote back that he wanted to include them in paterson, because it was like a voice from the streets of another generation answering him back. i was thrilled that, say, my interest in a place like this as being a central, sacred place in eternity, or my eternity in paterson, that i could actually show him, and he would empathize and understand this beauty surrounded in the midst of brick factories, with all the detritus and garbage in the middle of the spillway, with the actual birds of the universe chirping in the middle of it, with the buses of the universe driving around in it, but it still being a little like a sacred wood in the middle of the city. he u

katrina: the addition brings to life, first of all, the great poets that have written to allen ginsbergia plath and it has -- over the years, critics have elevated ideas and artists. clement greenberg elevating jackson pollock. our film critic who writes in here about john houston. stewart is a great film critic today. arthur dent help, who died just a while ago was an eminent philosopher whose essays about anything from andy warhol to las vegas and art elevated that. interestingly, "the nation" -- the back of the book, as we call it, the literary section was at war with the front, politically and socially. there was an anti-communist, liberalism in the back, and in the front there was a vigorous led by the editor then, anti-fascists, unwillingness to ally with what arthur/injured called vital center cold war liberals. that battle went on culturally and politically. those brawls -- christopher did not just write about politics for us. he would engage. one of the great essays was "canon to the right of me," and she still write about cultural issues here at amy: speaking of battles, israe

for example allen ginsberg, the great poet who is gay, is a big supporter of the cuban revolution. he went and was thrown out for speaking out for gay rights in 1965. we in north america realized that. that is really an outrageous. people go see for themselves but it was a much more open society that appears from what i wrote if you took it literally. >> what could we have done different in the last 55 years? >> i interviewed many national security officials in several administrations because i was puzzled. since we have relations with almost everybody what was the difficulty here. on the small level there was a division within our administration, people who were more hawkish and wanted to strangle them thinking they would succeed. and the way to go, open up trade or dialogue. each time we got close, our administration sabotage themselves. that this -- the book is called listen yankee against the book. if you don't listen to what humans are saying it is not that complicated. if you refuse to listen. if you never talked to them, reptilian premonitions let you are bigger and you are