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[William Blake - Watercolor Illustration to John Milton's "On The Morning of Christ's Nativity" - "The Annunciation to the Shepherds (1814) - watercolor on paper - 25.5 cms x 19.3 cms - Whitworth Art...
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Saluting Neal Cassady - The WFMU 1993 Neal Cassady Memorial Marathon
[Neal Cassady]Neal Cassady is our focus this weekend (perhaps more accurately, the influence of Neal Cassady) and, via the incomparable WFMU (out of East Orange, New Jersey) and their audio archives,...
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Expansive Poetics - 96 - (Andre Breton - 1 - Breton & The List Poem)
[André Breton (1896-1966) aged 28]AG: ..Those of you who have the anthologies, please turn to Andre Breton French (born) 1896, we’ll cover French. We’ll finish up with the French twentieth-century...
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Tuesday August 12 - (William Blake's Passing)
"Lest you should not have heard of the death of Mr Blake I have Written this to inform you - He died on Sunday night [August 12 1827] at 6 o'clock in a most glorious manner. He said He was going to...
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Expansive Poetics - 97 - (Andre Breton 2 - Free Union)
[Andre Breton - Portrait by Man Ray, 1929]Andre Breton(was) born (chronologically, a little) later (than Tzara) (and is) actually considered by the French to be a great writer and theoretician. I find...
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Expansive Poetics - 98 - (Andre Breton 3 - Andre Breton and William Carlos...
[Andrei Breton and William Carlos Williams]Student (CC): (But) aren't there dream-like qualities to each of those poets?AG: Whom?Student (CC): ((Tristan) Tzara),(Andre) Breton and (William Carlos)...
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[Ed & Miriam Sanders photographed in Woodstock by Allen Ginsberg, April 18, 1983. c Allen Ginsberg Estate]-This coming Sunday from 6 to 8.30 in New York City at the Bowery Poets Club, "Poets,...
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Ed Sanders on Harry Smith
In anticipation of Ed Sanders' seventy-fifth birthday tomorrow"Ed Sanders, poet and founding member of The Fugs, recalls his deep friendship with Harry Smith, compiler of the highly influential...
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Expansive Poetics - 99 - (Andre Breton - 4 - Andre Breton's Surrealist...
AG: Let's see what else he (Andre Breton) says (in his first Surrealist Manifesto) - "…(the) omnipotence of the dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends definitivly to ruin all the old...
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Expansive Poetics 100 - (Andre Breton 5 - Andre Breton's Poetry of the...
AG: So (Philip Lamantia), (Andre) Breton and the Surrealist school wanted a poetry of marvelousness, not any old plodding (like) the plums (that) you left in the ice-box (“This Is Just To Say”) – (“I...
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Expansive Poetics - 101 (John Ashbery & Purposeful Disjunction)
[Jackson Pollock - Number 8 (1949)]The climax of that method (applying Abstract Expressionist techniques to poetics) is a poem called "Europe"byJohn Ashbery, which was published in Big Table in 1961...
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Expansive Poetics 102 - (Robert Desnos)
AG: We also have, moving on fast to Robert Desnos, who died in a concentration camp during World War II - 1900 you'll find him.. [Allen is referring here to his listing in the classroom anthology] -...
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[Ed Sanders (accompanied by Steven Taylor) reads William Blake's Auguries of Innocence on the occasion of Ed's 75th birthday celebrations, held at the Bowery Poets Club in New York last week][Hal...
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January, 1959 - The Big Table Howl
[Irving Rosenthal& staff at Chicago Review][Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Carroll, Peter Orlovsky, Chicago, 1959 - Photograph courtesy Allen Ginsberg Collection][The first issue of Big...
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Expansive Poetics - 103 - (Vítězslav Nezval)
[Vítězslav Nezval (1900-1958)]AG: It'd be funny to write a poem (like "The Voice of Robert Desnos") that's totally extravagant in confidence, and then followed by a line that's a complete flop,...
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Expansive Poetics - 104 (Weird Juxtapositions)
[John Ashbery - The Little Tower of Babel, (2010) - collage 15.2 cms x 20.3 cms - courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery] (Weird juxtapositions) - Gregory Corso is a master of this. He actually took this...
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Lester Young's Birthday
[Lester Young - "Prez" - (1909-1959)]August 27 - It's Lester Young's birthday today Henry Ferrini's upcoming film biography is our focus. More on that essential documentary here.Drummer Tootie Heath...
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Jazz and the Beat Generation
Jazz and the Beat Generationfrom On The Road- "They ate voraciously as Dean [Neal Cassady], sandwich in hand, stood bowed and jumping before the big phonograph, listening to a wild bop record I had...
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Sam Charters - Jack Kerouac's Jazz - 1 - (Intro)
[Sam Charters]This weekend - jazz weekend, we'll present legendary jazz scholar, Sam Charters (in a talk given on July 26, 1982 at The Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, on the occasion of the 25th...
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Sam Charters - Jack Kerouac's Jazz 2 - Jack and Jazz
[Jack Kerouac, 1959 - Photograph by John Cohen]Following on from yesterday's introductory note. Here's transcription of Sam Charters' lively talk at the 1982 Naropa Kerouac Conference - on Kerouac and...
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