Letter from Allen Ginsberg, New York, to Bill Merwin and Dana Naone, 1979 March 10 : typescript signed.

Discussing his involvement in the recent media coverage (the Mar. 1979 issue of Boulder Monthly) of the 1975 incident at Naropa in which Chögyam Trungpa forced Merwin and Naone to remove their clothes at a party; explaining that he agreed to be interviewed about the incident by Tom Clark and Ed Dorn because they were "old friends" and fellow poets; emphasizing that he thought he was going to be able to edit the interview before it was printed; describing his dismay when he learned that the article had already been printed; adding that he is going to send Merwin documentation to support his assertions that he edited the transcript of the interview and asked Tom Clark not to use Merwin's name without his permission; apologizing for his "objectionable remarks" about Merwin's poetry; writing, "my main shame is in having discussed your situation in public (re the Seminary conflict) when you've had the delicacy to leave the situation [to] ripen on its own without aggression on your part. Of all people, I certainly owed you equal courtesy, and am humiliated to find my own vanity and meanness in print"; asking him to come to Naropa to "teach at the Kerouac School when it is possible" as part of "a mutual effort to accomodate to each other's understandings or misunderstandings"; noting that the conflict has been "a great difficulty to" him; commenting on a course he is teaching about William Blake; encouraging him to reply to the letter, "& if you have words of rebuke to me for my own behavior or speech please frankly lay them on me."