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University of Toronto's Allen Ginsberg Photography Collection
The University of Toronto announced today the receipt, thanks to a bequest by the Larry and Cookie Rossy Family Foundation, of 7,686 photographs and 236 silver gelatin prints (including many original...
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Expansive Poetics - 18 (Fernando Pessoa - 3)
[Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) aged 26, in 1914]Allen's observations on Fernando Pessoa continue AG: ....like in Whitman. This [Fernando Pessoa's "Poem in a Straight Line"] is parallel to the line that...
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Expansive Poetics - 19 (Fernando Pessoa - 4)
The major poem, or what is considered the major poem (ofFernando Pessoa) was too long to include (in the anthology), it's about a thirty-page shot, called"Maritime Ode", (Ode Marítima) about standing...
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Friday 's Weekly Round-Up - 162
For all our Spanish-speaking readers, Luis Costa Palacios' piece, in Diaro Cordoba, recalling, twenty years ago, Allen's visit to that city, is well worth a read. He came, as part of a delegation to...
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LOKA William Burroughs Interview part one
[William Burroughs, 1975 - Photograph by Peter Hujar © 1987 The Peter Hujar Archive LLC; Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco]This weekend, in anticipation of the...
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LOKA William Burroughs Interview part two
[William Burroughs, 1975 - Photograph by Peter Hujar "© 1987 The Peter Hujar Archive LLC; Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco"]The 1975 Loka interview with...
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Expansive Poetics - 20 (Lorca -1)
[Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)][Lorca's Passport]AG: How many know this poem? - Lorca's "Ode to Walt Whitman"? One, two, three, four, five, six. seven. Anybody else over there? How many do not? Oh...
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Expansive Poetics - 21 (Lorca - 2)
AG: Well, the "Ode to Walt Whitman" was my favorite of all the (Federico Garcia) Lorca poems. But the international classic that everybody cites as Lorca's great poem is his "Lament for a Bullfighter"...
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Pete Seeger (1919-2014)
[Pete Seeger (1919-2014)]Fellow activists, fellow artists, fellow passionate devotees to peace, Allen and Pete Seeger were standing there together in 1969 [sic] at the founding of WTR (War Tax...
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Expansive Poetics - 22 (Lorca - 3)
AG: We might get on to this [Lorca's "Llanto por la muerte de Ignacio Sanchez Mejias" ("Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias")], because this is a very amazing piece of rhetoric, depending a lot on...
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Expansive Poetics - 23 - (Lorca 4)
[Ignacio Sanchez Mejias (1891-1934)][Allen's Lorca class, continuing from here. A student is reading from Lorca's Llanto por la muerte de Ignacio Sanchez Mejias" ("Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias")]...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 163
[Allen asleep in Vancouver 1963 (from the Bobbie-Louise Hawkins home-movies]We've spoken of the Allen and Robert Creeley relationship before (and will again). Meantime, glimpse the two of them together...
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Allen Ginsberg Interviews William Burroughs - 1
[Allen Ginsberg with William S Burroughs at The Gotham Book Mart, New York City, 1977]Allen Ginsberg's 1980 interview with William S Burroughs, quizzing him about his post Naked Lunchwork (and probing...
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Rene Ricard (1946-2014)
[Rene Ricard (1946-2014) - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg c.Estate of Allen Ginsberg - courtesy Raymond Foye]We received news yesterday of the death, at 67, of the larger-than-life, irreplaceable, Rene...
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Allen Ginsberg Interviews William Burroughs - 2
[Allen Ginsberg with William Burroughs - Photograph c. Jerry Aronson] ALLEN GINSBERG and WILLIAM BURROUGHS - TWO INTERVIEWSThese two interviews both appear in the volume The Collected Interviews of...
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William S Burroughs - Call Me Burroughs
William S. Burroughs week all this week, leading up to Wednesday, which will mark the one hundredth anniversary of his birth - and, just in time for that monumental occasion, a huge new biography by...
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William S Burroughs & Junky (Canadian tv interview)
[ Junky - cover for the Penguin "50th Anniversary Definitive Edition"(2003), edited with an introduction byOliver Harris, and a Foreward by Allen Ginsberg] Here's two short clips from Peter Gzowski's...
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Happy 100th Birthday William S Burroughs
The William Burroughs Centennial. Author and visionary, William Seward Burroughs was born, exactly one hundred years ago today, on this very day. What better way to celebrate than by hearing his...
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William S Burroughs - A Photo Portfolio
We’ve done this a couple of times before, but thought, in honor of the Centennial, to do it once again, a little portfolio of William by Allen and William and Allen.[William Burroughs and Allen...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 164
[William Burroughs circa 1953 - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg c. The Estate of Allen Ginsberg]Tonight in LondonTonight in New York CityMeanwhile, in Bloomington, IndianaSo William Burroughs Centennial...
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