Michael Schumacher's The Essential Ginsberg has not been getting the attention we had hoped for, so we were pleased to find this notice in Ralph magazine this week.
That word "essential" isn't used lightly. Buy this book!
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And here's a "sneak preview" (from Harpers) from the next Ginsberg book - "1/29/84", one of the poems in Wait Till I'm Dead, a volume of uncollected poems that will be published by Grove-Atlantic this coming February.
Meanwhile, out next week (pub. date November 25), this little collection, from Il Saggiatore - Diario Indiano 1963 - sections from the Indian Journals(the Jan 28, 1963 section) - translated by Leopoldo CarraandMonica Martignoni, with an introduction by Leopoldo Carra
Who's that dark Neanderthal ominous figure staring out from the back jacket?
- Jon Gray/Gray 318's cover-drawing
Anne Waldman, speaking in New York last night. Read an interview with her - here
John Giorno, earlier this week in Paris - see here (and more about his show at the Palais de Tokyo - here)
John Pitcher's review in the Nashville Scene of Nashville Opera's recent staging of the Ginsberg-Glass opera, Hydrogen Jukebox - "thought-provoking".."skillfully staged", "terrifically sung". You can read more about that here
& the Eastman Opera Theatre in Rochester, New York, also recently mounted a production. More information about that presentation here.
For notes on Allen's 1982 visit to Charleville in the company of Simon Vinkenoog - see here
The Thai Allen Ginsberg? - Zakariya Amataya - "the Thai Allen Ginsberg"
David Amram's 85th birthday. Happy Birthday David! - Details of birthday celebrations (including a free NYC birthday concert) here
We're not sure about the soundtrack (Steppenwolf?The Pusher?) but Francesco Carlo Crespolti's illuminating Allen-in-Italy photos have been animated here (continuing attention to that beard hair!)
More Crispolti on Ginsberg images, from 1968 - here and here
