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Allen Ginsberg and Sonia Sanchez 1990 at the Miami Book Fair
This one comes with a qualifier - "What you are about to view is live footage from the 1990 Miami Bookfair International. The quality may not be pristine but it's a glimpse of the past. It was compiled...
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Expansive Poetics - 5 (Shelley's Cadence)
Student: [on Shelley's "Hymn To Intellectual Beauty"] - The thing I had trouble with, (with) stuff like that, is wondering if I should (be), like, listening to every word, understanding what's being...
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Expansive Poetics - 6 (Ode To The West Wind)
[Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), fair copy of the first forty-two lines of his "Ode to the West Wind" (1819), in the collection of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, England]Allen...
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"I Shall Be Released" (1980's Woodstock Jam)
Happy Traum just put this up on You Tube, and we were all uplifted and figured that, without any further ado, we just had to share. To quote his accompanying note - "This is an excerpt from a benefit...
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Expansive Poetics - 7 (Adonais)
AG: I'd like to read the end of (Percy Bysshe Shelley's) "Adonais". We don't have time for the ideal thing which is to read "Adonais" from beginning to end, but it's.. I've forgotten how...
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Denise Levertov
The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov are now available in a handsome one-volume edition edited by Paul A Lacey, with an introduction by Eavan Boland, published by New Directions. Here, from her...
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Jack Hirschman's 80th birthday today!From an (undated) interview on American Legends Interviewer: Of the early Beats, Allen Ginsberg is the one you're most closely identified with.Jack Hirschman: I...
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Peter Orlovsky's 1975 Naropa class (Poets Who Have Influenced Me)
[Peter Orlovsky with mama goat ("Shiva") and her baby, Cherry Valley Farmhouse, Cherry Valley, New York State - Photograph by Gordon Ball- Copyright Gordon Ball] An "unusual" transcription for this...
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Expansive Poetics - 8 - Pushkin
[Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) - Self-Portrait c. 1820]So, last session I was reading aloud some of (Percy Bysshe) Shelley as precursor to the heroic and expansive breath that we'll try to follow for...
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Expansive Poetics - 9 (The Bells and Annabel Lee)
Then, in America, the most interesting person around (at) the same time (as Pushkin, in the nineteenth-century), born 1809 and died early, 1849, is Edgar Allan Poe. Are most of you familiar with Poe?...
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Expansive Poetics - 10 (A Digression - Metrics)
AG: You all know anapestic rhythm? Is there anybody here that doesn't know rhythms, I guess. Well, we might as well go to the board. We won't be using this much in the twentieth-century but, just for...
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Expansive Poetics - 11 ( Herman Melville)
AG: Then, another heroic precursor, nineteenth-century, is Herman Melville, as a poet. How many here have run across Melville as a poet? Yeah. Has anybody here read Melville as a prose writer? - Moby...
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[Allen Ginsberg by Dan Bratton (with digital enhancement by Steve Silberman]New books from theUniversity of California Press noted on the horizon (we'll be saying more about them all in the weeks...
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Jewel Heart Howl Reading
,Allen Ginsberg reads "Howl" in 1994 at the Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, at a benefit for Jewel HeartFrom the program notes:On "Howl, for Carl Solomon"Allen Ginsberg's writing and first...
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Allen Ginsberg & Bob Dylan at the Grave of Jack Kerouac
This little excerpt, this classic excerpt, fromBob Dylan's lost epic, "Renaldo and Clara"(courtesy of the essential"The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg", Jerry Aronson's deluxe two-disc DVD set). Bob...
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Jack Kerouac's Christmas
NOT LONG AGO JOY ABOUNDED AT CHRISTMAS "I think the celebration of Christmas has changed within the short span of my own lifetime. Only twenty years ago, before World War II [sic] it seemed that...
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"Junge Wilde" (Wild Youth) is the German title for John Krokidas' Ginsberg-centric Beat movie, Kill Your Darlings (actually, to be scrupulously accurate, the German distributers have chosen both -...
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Robert Duncan
The concluding two volumes of the University of California's magisterial commitment [magisterialis, from the Medieval Latin, master] - toRobert Duncan - a commitment to publishing his complete...
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Happy Birthday Patti Smith
Happy Birthday, Patti Smith, 67 years old today! - Our last year's birthday posting (including links to many other Allen Ginsberg Project postings) can be found here. PattiSmith.Net, is, of course,...
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New Years Eve (Looking Back on 2013 & Forward to 2014)
["Buddhist (and one non-Buddhist) Action Figures" Photograph by Reverend Danny Fisher 2013]Last posting of 2013, we thought we'd list a few of our "greatest hits" from the past year - January - Nanao...
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