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Expansive Poetics - 34 (Hart Crane 2 - Cape Hatteras)
[Hart Crane (1899-1932)]Then he (Hart Crane) goes directly into an address to Walt Whitman - or, in another section of the poem he has an address to Walt Whitman, in the "Cape Hatteras" section. He...
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Expansive Poetics - 35 - (Hart Crane 3 & Poe)
AG: And then there’s another funny passage right after that from (the section of “The Bridge”called) “The Tunnel” where (Hart) Crane also picks up on the image ofEdgar Allan Poe, whom we’ve already...
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Expansive Poetics 36 (Shakespeare and D.H.Lawrence)
[William Shakespeare's Timon of Athens - Act IV Scene 1 - Timon renounces society - Engraving by Isaac Taylor (1803), after a painting by Henry Howard]Allen's Expansive Poetics class continues......
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 167
Published this past Tuesday in the UK by Penguin and this coming Thursday in the US by Da Capo Press, and edited by respected Beat scholar, Todd Tietchen -The Haunted Life - a previously-unpublished,...
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William S Burroughs - Cut-Ups
[William S Burroughs from Towers Open Fire(1963)]Just because February, the birthday month, is over, it doesn't mean our William Burroughs celebrations, here on the Allen Ginsberg Project are over, far...
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Cut-Ups 2 - Brion Gysin
[Brion Gysin with Dreamachine at Musée des Art Décoratifs, Paris, 1962 - Photograph by Harold Chapman - © Harold Chapman] Weekend of The Cut-Ups - Two Brion Gysin movies on the Allen Ginsberg Project...
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Allen Ginsberg on Jack Kerouac - 1
This week (Wednesday) is Jack Kerouac's birthday. As a warm-up, we present today, a little fugitive item - Allen's "Letter on Kerouac". It appeared in the inaugeral (Spring 1970) issue of the magazine...
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Allen Ginsberg on Jack Kerouac - 2
"I would say he [Jack Kerouac] offered his heart to the United States and the United States rejected his heart. And he realized what suffering the United States was in for, and so the tragedy of...
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Wednesday March 12 - Jack Kerouac's birthday
[Jack Kerouac's Hand-Drawn Map of the Hitchhiking Trip Narrated in On The Road]from a "Journal during first stages of "On The Road" (by John Kerouac [sic], 1948-49)Monday November 29 - That's 32,500...
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Expansive Poetics - 37 (Lawrence and Whitman)
Allen's "Expansive Poetics"lectures continue..AG: These specimens in American poetry of open-form verse are not that easy to find. Even after (Ezra) Pound and(William Carlos) Williams - 1905 or so –...
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Friday Weekly Round-Up - 168
[Allen Ginsberg in drag - from Pickup's Tricks, Gregory Pickup's 1973 documentary about the legendary exploits of the San Francisco drag-performance group, The Cockettes (this footage is also included...
View ArticleBurroughs Sings! - (Falling In Love Again)
Another Burroughs weekend. We're doing a lot of William Burroughs posts here on the Ginsberg blog - unapologetic - it being the Burroughs Centennial. Today, Wiliam Burroughs Sings! (We've already...
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Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan, of course, but..Allen (Ginsberg) visiting Lucien (Carr)in prison. ( "What's it like out there?"), one of several deleted scenes now available on the upcoming...
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Expansive Poetics 38 - (Edward Carpenter - 1)
AG: And Whitman had a few rare students who actually made it as poets, using his style and using his amplitude of vision or inclusion - his amplitude of ambition, let us say - to include everything....
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Surkov on Allen & Tupac (& Jackson Pollock)
[Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)]It's not every day you get such a glorious global name-check! (new Cold War name-dropping/ name-calling?)Vladislav...
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Expansive Poetics 39 - The Gay Succession
[Edward Carpenter][George Hukin and Edward Carpenter]AG: Born in 1844, (Edward) Carpenter. He was a theosophist. Gavin Arthur knew him. Gavin Arthur was a theosophist (too) and an astrologer, in San...
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Expansive Poetics 40 - (Edward Carpenter - 2)
AG: So..however..he (Edward Carpenter) went to visit (Walt) Whitman in, I guess, Camden (New Jersey), and Whitman told him to go to India, and so he did go to India, and I believe Carpenter met a...
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Expansive Poetics 41 - Edward Carpenter 3 (From Turin to Paris)
[Allen Ginsberg, aged 24, c.1950 - Walt Whitman, aged 35, c.1854][An early draft of Song of Myself]AG: Actually, I have a poem called "Sather Gate Illumination" and it's simply an imitation of this...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 169
March 21, in case you didn't know it, has been officially declared by the UN (by UNESCO) "World Poetry Day"Fanny Wallendorf's wonderful translations into the French of Neal Cassady's Letters ("Un truc...
View ArticleAllen Ginsberg 1990 Loyola University reading
A Night With Allen Ginsberg - Allen Ginsberg's reading at Loyola University, New Orleans, 1990. An eye-witness recalls: “The overflow crowd filled up the aisles and the outside lobby, so he (Allen)...
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