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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 200
The anniversary today of the suicide of Vachel Lindsay1931 -Eighty-three years ago..His doctors at the time discretely reported his death as having been the result of heart failure, but it was...
View ArticleVintage Beat Generation Footage
More vintage Beat Generationfootage this weekend. Both of these we'vefeatured before - in fact, if you turn to our column on the right-hand side of the page, you will find a whole list of "streaming...
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Meditation and Poetics - 17 (William Carlos Williams and Samatha)
[William Carlos Williams holding two kittens - undated (c.1928?) - included in the William Carlos Williams Collection, at the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and...
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Meditation and Poetics - 18 (William Carlos Williams and Vipassana)
[Two Kittens in Silhouette - a snapshot circa 1926, by, presumably, William Carlos Williams(included in his papers at the Yale Collection of American Literature Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript...
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Meditation and Poetics - 19 (William Carlos Williams' Good Night)
AG: There are two things I wanted to do today. One is go through some more (William Carlos) Williams, to extend from his breath out into the room, to see how he observed the room itself, things going...
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Meditation and Poetics - 20 (More Williams - Samatha-Vipassana)
AG: "(H)igh school French spoken in a loud voice?/Parsley in a glass,/still and shining,/brings me back." - He's spaced out, spaced in, spaced out, come back. "I take a drink/and yawn deliciously/I am...
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The big "Beat" news - So The Joan Anderson Letter auction scheduled by the auction house, Profiles In History, for December 17 has been "cancelled indefinitely", following threatened litigation by the...
View ArticleTo Aunt Rose - (Three Renditions)
One of Allen's most accomplished early poems is our spotlight today -"To Aunt Rose"- "A memory flash 1958 Paris. My favorite Aunt Rose (1900-1940) took care of me weekends when my mother was ill -...
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The Lion For Real - (Three Renditions)
Another from Michael Minzer and Hal Willner's The Lion For Real- the title track. The musicians on this one - Arto Lindsay, guitar, Michael Blair, guitar (& glockenspiel), Gary Windo, tenor sax,...
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Meditation and Poetics - 21
Allen Ginsberg's 1978 lectures on Meditation and Poetics at Naropa resume with this July 24th, 1978 classAG: I wanted to start off on (Charles) Reznikoff today. How many here have read Charles...
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Meditation and Poetics - 22
Student: What was that again?AG:The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry - by Ezra Pound (or, edited from the papers of the late Professor Ernest Fenollosa by Ezra Pound)Student: (And also)...
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Meditation and Poetics - 23
["I Saw The Fgure 5 in Gold"- Charles Demuth, 1928 (after the poem by William Carlos Williams) - oil, graphite, ink and gold leaf on paperboard, 35 1/2 x 30 ins - included in the Alfred Stieglitz...
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Meditation and Poetics - 24
AG: So there was the firstImagist school which said, "Sight is where the eye strikes", "Direct treatment of the object" (that's from (Ezra) Pound's little easy, "How To Read" - "Direct treatment of the...
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[Allen Ginsberg, 1994, San Francisco - Photo by Jay Blakesberg]Jay Blakesberg's wonderful photograph of a pensive Allen. It was Robert Frank's advice to Allen, the...
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The Shrouded Stranger (Three Renditions)
Last weekend we featured two tracks from the Michael Minzer-Hal Willner-produced Lion For Real -"To Aunt Rose" and "Lion For Real", this weekend, a couple more - First, the very early lyric (from 1949)...
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Ginsberg - Scribble
[Kenneth Rexroth & Edith Piaf]Here's the very first poem that opens "The Lion For Real" (published in Reality Sandwiches) - Kenneth Rexroth and Edith Piaf - a brief but poignant lyric,...
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Inscriptions -1 - (Allen Ginsberg signs his Collected Poems)
Ginsberg signing The Collected PoemsHere's two more signed editionssee what he wrote to the Living Theater
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Inscriptions - 2 - (More Inscriptions)
[Allen Ginsberg - Two "Ah Sunflower" inscriptions (for Eero Ruutilla, 1975, and David Cohen, 1992)]Following on from yesterday, here's a few more drawings and inscriptions (from the Allen Ginsberg...
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Allen Ginsberg - Christmas Gift
XMAS GIFTI met Einstein in a dreamSpringtime on Princeton lawn grassI kneeled down and kissed his young thumblike a ruddy popehis fresh face broad cheeked rosy"I invented a universe separate,something...
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Christmas - William Burroughs - The Junky's Christmas
William Burroughs' centennial draws to a close but not without the necessary December treat of The Junky's Christmas. You can watch The Junky's Christmas hereThis story originally appeared in the...
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