Volume 10, Number 10 · May 23, 1968
Easy, Easy
By Frank Kermode
The Liverpool Scene
edited by Edward Lucie-Smith
Doubleday, 127 pp., $1.95
The Incredible New Liverpool Scene
recorded live along the Mersey Beat, written and performed by Adrian Henri, by Roger McGough
Epic Records
No one responsible for selling these goods is likely to forget for a moment that Allen Ginsberg says Liverpool is 'at the present moment the center of consciousness of the human universe.' I have known the place myself without ever quite perceiving this, though the Pier Head was the first bit of England I ever saw, and might well have left me with some such fantasy. Anyway, as the poet remarked, the real is only the base, but it is the base, so it will do no harm to prospective purchasers to know more about the city thus dignified by Ginsberg.
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