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Lou Reed (1942-2013)
[Lou Reed 1942-2013]The news just reaches us that Lou Reed (only recently featured on these pages), has died, aged 71, from, what the AP wire service is reporting as, "a liver-related ailment" (Reed...
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Made Up in Texas - 1
Here's yet another version of Allen's delightful bitter-sweet Airplane Blues (see our earlier posting about that particular composition here). This one, with Bugs Henderson and Friends, recorded in...
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Made Up in Texas - 2 - (The Garland Symphony Orchestra)
A second cut from Michael Minzer's debut recording on Paris Records, Made Up In Texas.Allen withThe Garland Symphony Orchestra, scored and conducted by Steven Taylor, recorded in the Fall of 1985 in...
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Ezra Pound's Birthday
Above, courtesy the singular trove at Yale's Beinecke Library, a five-dollar cheque written by Ezra Pound to Louis Zukofsky. Today is Ezra Pound's birthday. Our extensive (and popular) 2011 Pound...
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Poe In Dust (Halloween)
From a new year's, 1977 visit to Baltimore, Maryland. Allen's ruminations on Poe, fittingly published today, on Halloween. POE IN DUSTBones groan maliciously under Baltimore sidewalkPoe hides his...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 150
[Lucien Carr and Allen Ginsberg at Lucien's wedding, January 4, 1952]Kill Your Darlings - We mentioned last week the dissenting position, eloquently voiced by Bob Rosenthal in his post from last...
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Remembering Pasolini
[Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975)]Today marks the date (the 38th year anniversary) of the assassination of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Following the recantation of his confession in 2005 by Pino Pelosi ("Pino...
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Scraps & Gleanings - A Sunday Miscellany
[Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) at NTID/RIT Rochester, New York, 1984 - Photograph courtesy Jim Cohn]It’s the Year of the Ginz! – didn’t you know it? - According to France’s Liberation -"Après l’année...
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Investigative Poetics - 3
AG: So what I want to do this period is to talk about just what I understand of his (Ed Sanders) notion of "Investigative Poetry", and the things that we've done in common (maybe touching on some...
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Investigative Poetics 4 - (Drugs - 1)
AG: Then, later on, I got into writing pop songs. So the fruition of this is "CIA Dope Calypso" (which will be coming out on Columbia Records this Fall) [1977] - [Allen then plays, in its entirety,...
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Sunflower Sutra - Mekas Vintage Footage (1959 at the Living Theater)
Yesterday, posted on You Tube was this remarkable footage (by Jonas Mekas) of Allen, Amiri Baraka (then LeRoi Jones) Ray Bremser, and Frank O'Hara, famously reading together, in 1959, in New York City,...
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Investigative Poetics - 5 - (Drugs - 2)
Allen on "Investigative Poetics" continuesAG: Well all this is simply to say that there was some kind of vast and large-scale weird conspiracy to interfere with people's lives, to interfere with the...
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Investigative Poetics - 6 (Pound and Paranoia)
[Francisco Goya (1746-1828) - "El sueño de la razon produce monstruos" ("The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters") - Plate 43 of "Los Caprichos" ("The Caprices"), (1799), etching and aquatint on paper...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 151
[Allen Ginsberg - Bloodsong - (edited by James Grauerolz) - Italian paperback, published by il Saggiatore, 2013]Continuing from last week, (we can't seem to leave it alone!) Kill Your Darlings (see...
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Robert Frank's Birthday
[Robert Frank& Allen Ginsberg. 1989. - Photograph by Ai Weiwei- Inkjet on Fantac Innova Ultra Smooth Gloss. Printed on 20 x 24-inch paper. Courtesy of Three Shadows Photography Art Centre and...
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Investigative Poetics - 7 - (Conspiracy - Political Revelations)
[Santo Trafficante Jr. (1914-1987)]AG.. I('ve) sort of concluded research on my own obsession with dope police state, with dope police, in about 1971. I presented a paper at the Institute For Policy...
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Investigative Poetics 8 - (Smoking Typewriters - 1 - "Racial Matters")
[SAC Albany, August 25, 1967] - FBI COINTELPRO Against Black Liberation Movement] AG: So now I'd like to move on to some samples of prose by the Intelligence Agencies. These are documents...
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Investigative Poetics - 9 (Smoking Typewriters - 2 - "The Sixties")
[National Guardsmen wielding rifles with bayonets advanced along Springfield Avenue in Newark on July 14 1967 - Photograph Don Hogan Charles for The New York Times]AG: "Investigative Poetics, I think,...
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Investigative Poetics - 10 (Conclusion)
[James Jesus Angleton (1917-1987), Chief of the CIA's Counter-Intelligence Staff 1954-1975]AG: Well, ok, what does all this mean? [all this COUNTELPRO information] - It means that.. Well, one thing...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 152
Jean Jacques Lebel's Beat exhibit (extended in Metz) now comes to Budapest, Hungary, to the Ludwig Contemporary Art Museum (it opened just last week, and will run there until January 12). Here's a...
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