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Neal Cassady's Birthday
[Neal Cassady - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg c. The Estate of Allen Ginsberg] [Neal Cassady - original manuscript for "The First Third"]Neal Cassady's...
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Reading Out Loud - A Diversion - 1
In the middle of his 1981 Expansive Poeticscourse (at the beginning of the June 25th class), Allen breaks off into a discourse about vocalization and the various skills required in reading the poem out...
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Reading Out Loud A Diversion - 2
Greek prosody has a system for each vowel of up, down, or middle. Rising tones, falling tones, and marked by a circumflex (the little mark, the little upside-down “v” mark) up and down. And I think the...
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Reading Out-Loud - A Diversion 3
Allen continues his June 25 1981 disquisition on the performance and the reading out loud of poetry.AG: One problem is that some people have an idea of poetry which is mono-tonal. Like Richard...
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Expansive Poetics - 24 (Lorca on Dali)
[Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali c.1925]Expansive Poetics - June 30 1981, a new class. Allen takes up, once again, briefly, after he left of, with further remarks on Federico Garcia Lorca and...
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Song ("The weight of the world is love")
We've been wanting to post this one for a while - and today's the perfect day. From Jerry Aronson's absolutely-definitive DVD ,The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (and posted here with his generosity...
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Allen Ginsberg Dot Org - New Web-Site
A big big announcement today. It's been a long-time in the making. Today sees the launch of our totally refurbished web-site - Allen Ginsberg dot org. Initially launched in 2002, that site, we'll be...
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Expansive Poetics - 25 - (Respondez!)
RESPONDEZ !AG: So I wanted to continue with (Walt) Whitman's children (one of them is in Russia, someone whom we'll pick up on later on (Velimir) Khlebnikov, the...
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Expansive Poetics 26 - (Khlebnikov's Menagerie)
[ Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-19220]AG: Now, by (Velimir) Khlebnikov, a poem called "Menagerie" [ "Zverinets", also translated as "Zoo"], which...
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Expansive Poetics - 27 (Khlebnikov - 2)
[Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922)]AG: Well, it's the list poem, or litany, or anaphoric return to the margin, which is characteristic of a lot of this kind of composition. The most common form is (in...
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Expansive Poetics - 28 - (Pound & Whitman)
So there's two poems by Ezra Pound - I haven't got the dates on them but I'm guessing that they're around 1917, around World War I or before."Commission" - First is Pound's address to his own poems...
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Friday's Weekly Round Up - 165
[Allen Ginsberg, 1954 - oil on canvas - painting by Robert LaVigne]Two weeks since the last round-up, so let's get right to it.[Robert LaVigne - Photograph by Myles Aronowitz]Robert Lavigne - The...
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William Burroughs - (Commissioner of Sewers)
Burroughs Centennial celebration continues. Here is Klaus Maeck's 1991 documentary - William S Burroughs - Commissioner of Sewers, featuring, in a suitably cut-up form, Jurgen Ploog's interview with...
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Expansive Poetics - 29 (Longfellow's Metrics)
["Thou too, Sail on, O ship of State.." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) autographed manuscript]["The degredation of life in America" - William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) annotated typescript...
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Expansive Poetry - 30 (The Spirit of Romance)
AG: To make a long story short, (Ezra) Pound went to Venice, (and) studied some classical languages and Renaissance, andProvencal poetries, specializing in two areas - one, where the language moved,...
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Expansive Poetics - 31 (WCW & Others)
tape resumes in media res.. class discussion of traditional and modernist metricsAG:.... how many (syllables in the) French alexandrine?Student: TwelveAG: Twelve. And if you write in eight, eleven, or...
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Expansive Poetics 32 (Walt Whitman - Crossing Brooklyn Ferry)
[Fulton Ferry Boat (Brooklyn, New York), July 1890 via The Library of Congress, Washington DC]AG: So the next one chronologically that I want to take up is Hart Crane, whom we have in our book[Hart...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up 166
Chogyam Trungpa would have been 75 years old todayPrevious Trungpa birthday postings on the Allen Ginsberg Project may be viewed here and here For a rich wealth of Trungpa materials - see here...
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March 1 Birthdays - Lucien Carr & Basil Bunting
[Basil Bunting (1900-1985)][Lucien Carr (1925-2005)]Two strangely contrasting birthdays, celebrated today (strangely contrasting? - or maybe not). We'll draw your attention to fairly comprehensive...
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Expansive Poetics - 33 (Hart Crane 1 - "The River")
[Hart Crane (1899-1932)]So we have Hart Crane, "The Bridge", which is the bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn - a whole poem is supposed to be symbolic between present and future, present America and...
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