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Saturday July 28 - Gay Pride
Gay Pride weekend this weekend. We begin by drawing your attention to this important posting. We celebrate today with Greta Schiller and Robert Rosenberg's 1984 documentary,Before Stonewall. (Allen...
View ArticleInterview in Galway 1995 - Getting to Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg in Ireland - (Allen filmed in Galway, when he was over for the Cúirt Literary Festival, in 1995). Local "character", Mark Kennedy(of Streetcorner Productions) recently put up on You...
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Expansive Poetics - 75 (Nikolay Klyuev)
[Nikolay Klyuev (1884-1937)]August 4, 1981 Naropa Institute, Allen continues his lecture(s) on Expansive PoeticsAG: Well, I thought this time to cover somebody that we had mentioned before, which (is...
View ArticleExpansive Poetics - 76 (Sergei Esenin - 1)
AG: I think, first of all, to get now into (Sergei) Esenin, (we should) hear his voice. I played it last term. There's a record I brought back from Prague, given to me by Esenin's Czech translator in...
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Expansive Poetics - 77 (Sergei Esenin - 2)
[Sergei Esenin (1895-1925)].. So, Esenin broke loose from (Nikolay) Klyuev, who was very demanding (sexually, I imagine, as well as morally). He didn't want Esenin to be running around Russia as a big...
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Expansive Poetics - 78 (Sergei Esenin - 3)
[Sergei Esenin (1895-1925)]AG: First thing we ought to do is get to some of his (Sergei Esenin's) texts, some of the poetry, before we get onto the gossip (which is kind of poetically interesting...
View ArticleJuly 4th and America
Americaأمــــــــــــــــــريـــــــــكـــــــــــــا. أمريكا لقد منحتك كل شيء وها أنا الآن لا شيءأمريكا، دولارين وسبعة وعشرين سنتيمات،سبعة عشر ينايرألف وتسع مائة وست وخمسين. أنا لا أستطيع أن أحافظ...
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Knitting Factory Kaddish
A couple of weekends ago, we featured Allen's 1995 rendition of "Howl" (recorded at the Knitting Factory in New York) as part of an intensive week of performance (it was Allen's intention to read...
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Expansive Poetics - 71 (1962 - Khruschev at the Manege Exhibition)
[Nikita Khruschev at the Moscow Union of Artists 30th Anniversary Exhibition at the Manege, Moscow, December 1, 1962]AG: "The way of the grave straightens a hunchback" - this is a Russian proverb...
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Expansive Poetics - 79 (Sergei Esenin - 4)
from August 6 1981 at Naropa and Allen's on-going Expansive Poetics (Russian Poetry) classAG: (So, I'll continue with Sergei Esenin) today and go on to Anna Akhmatova, and then, I think, leave Russian...
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Expansive Poetics - 80 (Anna Akhmatova - 1)
[Anna Akhmatova (1889-1996) in 1924 - Photograph by Moisei Nappelbaum]AG: (Now) I wanted to move on to Anna Akhmatova, who lived… (Sergei) Esenin died 1925, (Vladimir) Mayakovsky (allegedly) committed...
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Expansive Poetics - 81 (Anna Akhmatova - 2)
(Anna Akhmatova's "Requiem") was never actually published in Russia complete, (and) the manuscript was passed toSir Isaiah Berlin, an English Russophile, scholar, specialist, (who) managed to visit her...
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Expansive Poetics - 82 (Anna Akhmatova - 3)
[Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)]Allen's discussion of Anna Akhmatova's "Requiem" continues, AG: This (passage) is discussing her son, I think, this next one - "At dawn they came and took you away./ You...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 181
Two weeks since the last "Friday Round-Up", so.. without further ado..Jim Cohn's Allen-centric Napalm Health Spa (we've featured it before on the Allen Ginsberg Project), this past July 4, delivered a...
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Summer of Love / Human Be-In
Three years ago, we presented a fairly extensive post on the January 14, 1967, legendary San Francisco, "Human Be-In". We'd like to direct your attention to it here. Meanwhile, fresh up on You Tube,...
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Expansive Poetics - 83 (Anna Akhmatova - 4 - A Poem Without A Hero)
Allen continues his survey of the works of Anna AkhmatovaAG: And the later, even more complicated poem. "A Poem Without A Hero", including herself, in other words, a poem in which even she is not the...
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Expansive Poetics - 84 - Out-take - Nixon's Paranoia
So, a quick "outtake" today, or "digression" (from our recent transcription (from 1981) of Allen, speaking of the bureaucratic complicity and the institutionalized paranoia of the (Stalinist) Russian...
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Expansive Poetics - 85 (Guillaume Apollinaire and French Modernism)
Expansive Poetics class continues, August 11, 1981AG: We had an enormous mental bath and blood bath with (all that) Russian poetry, and we had some comparisons with other countries, but we didn't pick...
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Expansive Poetics - 86 - (Apollinaire's Calligrammes)
AG: This is a fountain. "The Bleeding Heart Dove and the Fountain". (La colombe poignardée et le jet d'eau) Can you see well enough to make this worthwhile to hold up? This is a boook that came out in...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 182
Yishay Ben Moshe is currently performing, "The Key Is In The Window", a theatrical interpretation of Allen's "Kaddish" at the Gay and Lesbian Center in Tel Aviv, Israel.Nathan Zach's translation (a...
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