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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 175
[Allen Ginsberg throwing out the first ball at the San Francisco Giants game at Candlestick Park, June 2, 1994 - Photo courtesy Steve Silberman]Our friend, Chris Funkhouser has a must-read piece (part...
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Poetry In Motion
Ron Mann's groundbreaking 1982 film, Poetry In Motion, (we have featured, in the past, snippets, including Allen's enthusiastic "Capitol Air" performance) is now available, in its entirety, on the...
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Expansive Poetics - 47 (Mayakovsky - 4)
[Vladimir Mayakovsky - Costume Art for the Seven Pairs of the Clean and the Seven Pairs of the Unclean from the production of his play, Mystery-Bouffe (1918/1921)] AG: Footnote..speaking of menage a...
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Expansive Poetry - 60 - (A Quick Review)
AG (looking back on "Expansive Poetics", so far): We had started with a few early precursors. I started, (since this was an international shot - or, at least, a Western shot), I started with a couple...
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Expansive Poetics - 61 (The Stray Dog Cafe)
[Stray Dog Cafe, St Petersburg (1912 logo)]AG: The Stray Dog Café – There’s a little tiny footnote on it in a Russian literary quarterly, which also has translation of a poem by Anna Akhmatova of the...
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Expansive Poetics - 62 - Nikolay Gumilev)
[Nikolay Gumilev (1886-1921)]Allen reads Russian poet, Nikolai Gumilev's poem "The Lost Tram-Car"Заблудившийся трамвайШел я по улице незнакомойИ вдруг услышал вороний грай,И звоны лютни, и дальние...
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Expansive Poetics 63 (Osip Mandelstam)
[Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938)]AG: Another funny little poem, 1920, by (Osip) Mandelstam, who looked like this as a young man…[Allen shows photograph of Mandelstam] - Let's see.. where am I? I've got...
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Gary Snyder's Birthday
This past February, as part, (part two), of the Tales From Two Cities - Writing From California Conference, (held at the Los Angeles Public Library, under the auspices of the Huntington-USC Institute...
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Allen Ginsberg, James Franco &"Selfies"
The "selfie" (word of the moment), the ubiquitous "selfie" - As Paul Gallagher noted recently, on one of our all-time favorite blogs, Dangerous Minds - "Along with being a poet, Beat writer, radical,...
View ArticleConrad Rooks - Chappaqua
Chappaqua, the legendary 1966 film, written and directed by Conrad Rooks(Rooks not Brooks - sic), now available, in its entirety, on You Tube, is this weekend's Allen Ginsberg Project focus. As Jack...
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Allen by Naomi - A Mother's Day Posting
[Allen Ginsberg by Naomi Ginsberg - A mother's portrait painting of her son c. Allen Ginsberg Estate]- thanks to Jacqueline Gens& Steve Silberman. & The Allen Ginsberg Estate for reproduction...
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Allen By Naomi - A Mother's Day Posting
[Allen Ginsberg by Naomi Ginsberg] - A mother's portrait of her son. c. Allen Ginsberg Estate - thanks to Jacqueline Gens & The Allen Ginsberg Estate for permission to reproduce this image.
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Expansive Poetics - 64 ("A Slap In The Face of Public Taste")
["A Slap In The Face of Public Taste" from the Museum of Modern Art Collection]AG: So what was lost, or what was the energy that's lost, it'll be interesting to read, going back eight years earlier...
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Expansive Poetics - 65 ((Rimbaud)
Allen's 1981 "Expansive Poetics" lecture continues...AG: Yes. If you want to see where that came from we would go back to the French precursors, the heroic precursors, and check out (Arthur) Rimbaud's...
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Expansive Poetics - 66 (Dada Manifestos)
AG: I just referred back to (Arthur) Rimbaud to check out the tone of the manifesto, of rejecting the old. And here is a Dada manifesto(I don't know what year that would be? Does anybody know?...
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Extended Poetics - 67 - (More Khlebnikov - 1 - Incantation By Laughter)
[Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922), in 1908, aged 23]AG: Now I would like to go back to 1908, a few years before that, to (Velimir) Khlebnikov, who was, for Russian Futurism, the great master of all...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 176
[Allen Ginsberg at the Women's House of Detention, New York, March 1964 - Photograph by Benedict J Fernandez] Benedict J Fernandez, the photographer who snapped this iconic shot, is currently being...
View ArticleNew Stanzas for Amazing Grace
"I dreamed I dwelled in a homeless place/ Where I was lost alone/ Folk looked right through me into space/And passed with eyes of stone.." Allen Ginsberg's "New Stanzas for Amazing Grace", an up-dated...
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More Amazing Grace
Following on from yesterday, we thought, why not, why not make it an Amazing Grace weekend - "Compare and Contrast", like they say. Here's a few more renditions of Amazing Grace Here's the pure...
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Expansive Poetics - 68 (More Khlebnikov - 2)
[Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922)]AG: So I'll read a few more (of Velimir Khlebnikov) that are of later dateThunderstorm in the Month Au [('Groza v mesyatse Au')] Pupu-popo! That's the thunder.Gam gra...
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