tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990892400523747815.post5595077061503883600..comments2009-09-16T14:00:32.431-04:00Al Filreishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361573484797020525afilreis@gmail.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990892400523747815.post-74596548065467312412009-09-16T14:00:32.431-04:002009-09-16T14:00:32.431-04:00Great show. I bought “Holy Soul, Jelly Roll” the Allen Ginsberg CD box set in 1998. Disk three had all the Blake songs on it. I think they were different recordings than the one presented here. Some were live. I loved them. I think for Ginsberg the recording and performing these songs were important to him because they culminated he felt that he had some sort of mystical connection with Blake. For the Blake poem itself, I always thought that it had do with the progress of time, the loss an Eden, either in a land or in an individual. The transformation of a “Garden of Love,” some idealistic reality. to some institutionalized reality. Could be the state or the church.bumdharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02914110740817470145noreply@blogger.com