(3 June 1926–5 April 1997). The avant-garde Ginsberg is the author not of post-Whitmanian lines that survive in the head of every literate American but of certain sound poems that he published without musical notation. (Remember that he has also published, as well as sung, many conventionally configured songs.) One of them, “Fie My Fum,” appears in his Collected Poems (1984), while most do not. An example is “Put Down Yr Cigarette Rag,” whose verses conclude with variations on the refrain “dont smoke dont smoke dont...