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Complaint Of The Skeleton to Time
Continuing with our re-visit and amplification of the Willner-Minzer Lion For Real - see here, here,here and here - here's another early (1949) lyric -"Complaint Of The Skeleton To Time"Sleeve note -...
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Refrain
[Eric Drooker - illustration for The Ballad of the Skeletons, as it appeared in The Nation, October 23, 2012] More Lion For Realamplification. More early Ginsberg lyrics - today's offering - Refrain...
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More Lion For Real - Gregory Corso's Story
[Gregory Corso]AnotherLion For Realsampler. How about "Gregory Corso's Story"?Allen's description - "A little anecdote the poet (Gregory) Corso told me around 1951", "Bill Frisell's delicate setting...
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Patti Smith's Birthday
Patti Smith's birthday today. Patti Smith, who has done so much to spread the word about Allen.For starters see here,here and here.Here's our note on her last year's birthday - here A "renaissance...
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New Years Eve - A Quick Retrospective
[Janus - The (Roman) God of Looking Forward (to the Future) and simultaneously Backwards (to the Past)]Bidding adieu to 2014, we look back on some of the Allen Ginsberg Project posts of the past year....
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Thursday Jan 1 2015 (New Years Greetings)
NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS TO ONE AND ALL FROM THE ALLEN GINSBERG PROJECT
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 203
A New Year - the first of this year's Friday Round-Ups, our regular weekly miscellany. A few weeks back, we featured one of Jay Blakesberg's extraordinary pictures of Allen. Here's another. William S...
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Allen Ginsberg and the Buddhist Lion Tiger Band
[Eugene Delacroix - Tiger (detail) - from "A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother" (1830-31) in the collection of The Louvre, Paris, France] Presenting vintage audio from the archives at Naropa - Allen...
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Meditation and Poetics - 25
Our serialization of Allen's 1978 Naropa Institute lecture series, Meditation and Poetics continueswith this class from July 24 1978AG: So, heroic days, the (19)20's and (19)30's, with heroic figures...
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John Wieners Birthday
[John Wieners (1934-2002)]John Wieners birthday today. We celebrate (as always)...
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Meditation & Poetics - 26
Allen's July 24 1978 Meditation and Poetics class continues…AG: I was, I think, mentioning (Ezra) Pound's distinction between presentation and reference. [to Students] Did I do that here with you?...
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Meditation and Poetics - 27
Student: (What changes did the so-called Imagist poets go through?) AG: Well, let’s see. I’m not clear what changes they went through. They apparently went through several changes. That same group of...
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Herbert Huncke Centennial
["Old-timer & survivor, Herbert E Huncke, Beat Literary Pioneer, early decades thief, who introduced Burroughs, Kerouac & me to floating population hustling & drug scene Times Square 1945....
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Allen Ginsberg and Herbert Huncke - SFSU 1967
[Herbert Huncke and Allen Ginsberg - together on East 10th Street, New York City, three years later, 1970 - Photograph by Ann Charters] From the invaluable trove atSan Francisco State University's...
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Huncke by Ginsberg - A Herbert Huncke Portfolio
[Herbert Huncke, photobooth, Times Square circa 1940. Ginsberg Collection] [above four photos: "Rare glimpse of storyteller Herbert E. Huncke, then strung out in his room Hotel Elite, N.E. corner of...
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Meditation and Poetics - 28
The Meditation and Poetics class (from July 24 1978) continues…AG : So then for that (poetic modernism) I would recommend, if you’re interested in this, because there’s a kind of, like, unfolding of...
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Meditation and Poetics - 29 - Reznikoff 1
[Portrait of An Old Woman(1563) - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1525-1569) - oil on panel 22cm x 18cm at the Alta Pinakothek, Munich]AG: Did I read any (Charles) Reznikoff yet?Students: No[Charles...
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Meditation and Poetics - 30 (Reznikoff 2)
AG: Now Poems 1920. Now he (Charles Reznikoff)’s really taking a look around him, New York particularly. These are (a) series. “Poems was published by Samuel Roth at the New York Poetry Book Shop..in...
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Meditation and Poetics - 31 (Reznikoff 3)
AG: Then in this book [Charles Reznikoff– Poems 1920] is the beginning of some amazing poems which are narrative poems which tell stories which have the compass of an entire short story or even a...
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Friday's Weekly Round Up - 204
Herbert Huncke Centennial Celebrations at the Beat Museum today - Laki Vazakas, Hilary Holladay, Ben Schafer, Dennis McNally, Brenda Knight, Regina Marler and Tate Swindell look back upon and discuss...
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