Kral Majales (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Allen Ginsberg
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Language or languages, 1960’s, Communism or communists, Love or romance, Art or artists, Religion, Capitalism, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians, Evil
Among the links in the “chain of strong-breath’d poems,” “Kral Majales” contains some of Ginsberg's strongest affirmations of human love as a force sufficient to overcome the powers of evil. The poem was written in May, 1965, after Ginsberg had been “sent from Havana” when his hosts found that he was not sympathetic to their suppression of unconventional behavior, and then “sent from Prague” when the authorities became nervous that a hundred thousand Czech citizens were deliriously cheering a bearded, anarchic American poet who was advocating action directly opposed...
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