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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 143
Summertime over now and a few (belated) notes on two summer-time conferences -ESBN (the European Beat Studies Network) 2, which took place in Aalborg (the University of Aalborg), Denmark, August...
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Daniel Radcliffe is interviewed and reads some lines (the opening lines, of course!) from Allen's epic "Howl" "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,/...
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Philip Lamantia
[Philip Lamantia (1927-2005) - Photographed in 1981 by Chris Felver] Happy, immensely happy, to be able to announce the publication (long-awaited publication) of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia....
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Spontaneous Poetics - 135 (Gertrude Stein)
[Gertrude Stein - Portrait of Gertrude Stein by Felix Valloton (1907)] Student: Where do you think that (Gertrude) Stein figures into this lineage of voices that you've presented to us from (Walt)...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 136 (Political Commitment - 1)
Student: You were talking about political disillusionment the other day.AG: Yeah.Student: What's the nature now [1976] of your political commitment? AG: Very complicated. I felt that I had left that...
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More Radcliffe on Ginsberg
Trying not to burden you all too much with this (the guy, after all, is giving - and will be giving - plenty of interviews, in advance of, and doing the publicity for, his upcoming movie) - Daniel...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 137 (Political Commitment - 2)
[Original transcription note - the first ten minutes of this side (this new side) of the tape is blank. It is unclear whether any significant portion of the class is missing]AG:... (a recognition that)...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 138 (Political Commitment - 3)
[Allen Ginsberg & members of the ad hoc Rocky Flats Truth Force meditating in the path of an approaching train that was carrying radioactive detritus away from the Rockt Flats Nuclear Weapons...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 144
[Leonardo DiCaprio and Allen Ginsberg - Photograph by Jerry Aronson] "The film of the year"? - "The film of the year"? - Well, obviously, we had to run this one! - Rebecca Cope, in Harpers Bazaar, on...
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Allen in 1976 - The Vision of Naropa
[Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (1939-1987)]Allen Ginsberg, August 8 1976, (early days), speaking on the formation and the vision of the Naropa Institute (now Naropa University)AG: In the last few days we’ve...
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Carolyn Cassady (1923-2013)
[Carolyn Cassady (1923-2013)]Word just reaches us of the death of Carolyn Cassady. Brian Hassett has the report here. She died peacefully, with her son, John Allen, there, in attendance, close beside...
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Ginsberg-Cherry-Rowan - Buddhism in Song
[Don Cherry][Peter Rowan][Allen Ginsberg]Don Cherry at Naropa in August of 1976. We featured him yesterday, we thought to include him again today, alongside Peter Rowan (who we’ve previously...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 139
[Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1526-1569) - Tower of Babel (1563), oil on panel, 44.8 inches x 61 inches at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria] AG: I wanted to find out... Let's see.. I took...
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John Coltrane
[John Coltrane (1926-1967) - live version and sheet music for "A Love Supreme"]Allen, in Partisan Review, in 1971, [speaking of (William Carlos) Williams]:"The influence was that originality of taking...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 140 (Rilke)
[Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)]AG: I (know) a couple of lines (of German) - " Du bist wie eine Blume/so..schon und.." (Heinrich Heine) Philip Whalen: I'd like to take the Rilke out of .. as much...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 141
[Allen Ginsberg and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche at Naropa Institute]AG: Did you have your... Yes?Student: Yeah, I would like to know, who, besides yourselves, is a contemporary [1976] influence in your...
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Spontaneous Poetics - (Emergency Fund Raising)
Naropa's financing in its early days, was precarious, to say the least. We've already published an earnest (and also entertaining) fund-raiser/funding appeal - here. Allen breaks off his August 6, 1976...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 149
[Allen Ginsberg, Eastside Highshool Paterson NJ 1942 or 43. Ginsberg family photo/c. Allen Ginsberg Estate][Allen Ginsberg, Mexico, 1954. c Allen Ginsberg Estate]Jordan Larson in The Atlantic last week...
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Gelek Rinpoche's Birthday
Happy (74th) Birthday Gelek Rinpoche! Allen's guru, Jewel Heart's great teacher. Nikki Appino's film documentary (with music by Philip Glass) is an illuminating introduction (a longer version of the...
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Is There A Beat Generation? (Brandeis/NYC 1958)
[Jack Kerouac, Lucien Carr, Allen Ginsberg]Our thanks to the wonderful Open Culture for alerting us/reminding us of this one, the legendary 1958 discussion at the Brandeis University Club in New York...
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