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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 172
A rare (rarely-seen) Ginsberg item (that didn't meet its estimated price in their last big Beat-related auction) - If Not Forever - A Letter to Jack Kerouac(Sore Dove Press, San Francisco, 2008) -...
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"Aint No Sin To Take Off Your Skin..." (from The Black Rider)
[Robert Wilson, Tom Waits& William Burroughs - co-creators of The Black Rider]"When you hear sweet syncopation and the music softly moans/'t ain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in...
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Expansive Poetics - 48 (A Reminder - Meditation as Counterpoint)
Allen Ginsberg, Boulder Colorado, June 1994. photo c. Steve Miles]Allen's 1981 Expansive Poetics class transcripts continue.Allen speaks out, noting Naropa's current (1981) financial difficulties,...
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Expansive Poetics - 49 (Akhmatova & Mayakovsky)
[Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), in 1924, aged 35]June 9 1981 - Allen Ginsberg's Expansive Poetics class continuesat Naropa Institute. On this day, Ann Charters, who, two years earlier, in collaboration...
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Expansive Poetics - 50 (Mayakovsky on Esenin)
[Sergei Esenin (1895-1925)]AG (to Ann Charters): I did want to interject this (Sergei) Eseninthing, because in that there's also [as with Akhmatova's "Requiem"] a reference to the bronze-lidded...
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Expansive Poetics - 51 (Mayakovsky and the Revolution)
[Vladimir Mayakovsky, detail of a poster design, 1921. - Translation of the title: “Comrades! Beware of falling into those jaws. Let us close ranks to escape such a miserable fate—Strengthen Soviet...
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[Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) & Kathy Acker (1947-1997)]April 18 - Bob Kaufman's and Kathy Acker's birthday today. For our postings on Kaufman - see here and here. For our posting on Kathy Acker see...
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William Burroughs - Last Words of Hassan Sabbah
[Hassan-i-Sabbah, "The Old Man of the Mountain"]Burroughs-month, Burroughs-year, Burroughs-century. Here's yet another posting on William.Initially in a letter to Allen, written June 21 1960, and...
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William Burroughs - Star Me Kitten & The Priest They Called Him
[Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Michael Stipe (REM) and William Burroughs][William Burroughs and Kurt Cobain] More Burroughs for the weekend - collaborations with Michael Stipe and Kurt Cobain (REM and...
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Expansive Poetics - 52 (Mayakovsky and Mandelstam)
[Vladimir Ilych Lenin (1870-1924)]transcription from Allen Ginsberg's "Expansive Poetics" Naropa Class continuesAnn Charters: So okay. And with this poem of “Lenin”, Mayakovsky (this is first read on...
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Expansive Poetics - 53 - (Mayakovsky and Lili Brik)
[Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik][Lili Brik, drawn by her lover Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1916,one year after their meeting] Ann Charters: So about this, this is a long, long, poem, which, is in my...
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Expansive Poetics 54 - (Mayakovsky - Public Poetry)
AG: What did we have? What is the next thing we were going to do? Because I have an idea.Ann Charters; Well, I was going to talk (next) about his (Mayakovsky's) work for the Party. I mean, what does a...
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Expansive Poetics - 55 - (Mayakovsky and Tatiana)
[Tatiana Yacovieff du Plessix Liberman (1906-1991)]Ann Charters: Well, again, with Mayakovsky, this his public declaration - "Conversation with a Tax Collector About Poetry"["Разговор с фининспектором...
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Wild in Denver - Neal Cassady's Teen Years by Charlie HailerNews from New York - it seems that this summer's regular Howl! Festival won't be happening this year. More on that story here - and here In...
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More Burroughs Music Collaborations
Last weekend we featured a couple ofWilliam Burroughs' rock collaborations. Here's a few more, starting with his rendition of a poem by Jim Morrison (from the tribute album, Stoned Immaculate - The...
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What Keeps Mankind Alive?
What Keeps Mankind Alive?The text - Ralph Manheimand John Willett's translation, from Bertolt Brecht's original German, of the second finale of Brecht-Weill's classic "Threepenny Opera" (Die...
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Expansive Poetics - 56 (Mayakovsky-The Bedbug)
Ann Charters: How much time do we have?AG: We actually have have half an hour, but what I would like to do is get a piece of that ["The Bedbug"] then go to "..At The Top of My Voice"(which Richard Poe...
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Expansive Poetics- 57 (Mayakovsky - At The Top of My Voice)
[Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930)]Ann Charters: So we'd like to do a few more things before we end, and the poem which you have in your anthology, "At The Top of My Voice", which was written a few...
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Expansive Poetics - 58 (Mayakovsky - Conclusion)
[History of the Russian Revolution - From Marx to Mayakovsky (1965) - by Larry Rivers(1925-2002) - wood, oil, charcoal, serigraphs, and photo-mechanical reproduction on canvas, wood, paper, metal,...
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Expansive Poetry - 59 (Heroic Loud-Mouthed Style)
[Lili Brikin poster designed by Alexander Rodchenkoin 1924 for the Soviet publisher, Gosizdat] AG: ..heroic style, loud-mouthed style, hot-air style, exaggeration style, post-Surrealist style,...
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