\"Ik heb een vrij uitvoerige ‘analyse’ gemaakt van Poem Rocket, waarover ik onlangs een lange brief van Allen Ginsberg zelf mocht ontvangen.”\n[Collectie met:]\nAllen GINSBERG – Autograph letter signed, to Luuk GRUWEZ - [New York] 18 Dec 1973. 2 handwritten pages, each on verso of a vintage poster “Veterans and Reservists to End the War in Vietnam / New York Workshop in Nonviolence Peace Illumination Walk, 1966“, in original envelop, stamped and send by airmai.\n* Belgian writer and poet Luuk Gruwez (born 9 August 1953) had sent Ginsberg an essay in which he analysed Ginsbergs ‘Poem Rocket‘ (first published in Kaddisj).\nGinsberg’s answer written on verso of posters for an anti-Vietnamwar ‚walk‘ and benefit for action Vietnames children: “Dear Luuk – While reading your essay I took following notes to help clarify affirm of straighten out yr – perceptions; […] Death’s movie is life. Pythagoras – ‚Everything we see when awake is death: when asleep, dream.’ A Buddhist view in a way – Life as an optical illusion, Maya – based on theory of 5 ‚Skandas‘ or 5 ‚Heaps‘ or aggregates forming the illustion. A good deal of the poem is humor & intelligent conjecture. The boldness of the action may be equated with ‘Visionary’ but I was experiencing ordinary humorous consciousness , […] I mean there was nog instant psychedelic afflatus or illumination present during composition. Just freedom of imagination. However your essay looks very closely at the poem & understands it nicely. I had thought the meaning was obvious & needed less complex explanation. But thank you for your real understanding. Just write simpler! – Love Allen / I can’t take time to comment much on my own poems or I wont write poems.”Added: * 2 autograph letters, signed by Luuk Gruwez tot Simon Vinkenoog, (in Dutch) dated ‘Deerlijk, 4 maart / 13 april 1974). Gruwez inquires for documentation on Allen Ginsberg and the Beat generation in general (asking for adresses) in preparation for a reading on Ginsberg, translations and of his poems and a thesis he intends to write: ‘Le poète maudit en de beat-generation’. ** Original typed letter signed from Simon Vinkenoog to Luuk Gruwez (in Dutch), dated: Amsterdam, 17.4.74. 1 p., in the original envelop.