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Gregory Corso Reading - Naropa Assembly Hall, 1981
Fourteen years ago today, Gregory Corso passed away. We salute him today with a vintage audio recording (from the Naropa Assembly Hall, November 11, 1981). Gregory reads unpublished works and poems...
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Corso Addenda
[Gregory Corso (1930-2001)]An addenda to our yesterday's Gregory Corso posting. We didn't quite finish the transcription. Here's Gregory's account of his prison background and his reading and...
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Meditation and Poetics - 32 (Reznikoff - 4)
[Our transcription of Allen Ginsberg on Charles Reznikoff (from 1978) continues]AG: Gregory Corso had never read (Charles) Reznikoffand he picked this up in my house the other day [The Collected...
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Meditation and Poetics 33 (Reznikoff - 5)
[Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) - Photo by Gerard Malanga] AG: "Sunday Walks in the Suburbs" [by Charles Reznikoff] - "(2) - Scared dogs looking backwards with patient eyes - /at windows stooping...
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Meditation and Poetics - 34 (Reznikoff 6 - Reznikoff & Lamantia - Acknowledge...
[Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)] "Once a toothless woman opened her door,/chewing a slice of bacon that hung from her mouth like a tongue" - The most hideous image in American… and the most memorable...
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Meditation and Poetics - 35 - Reznikoff 7
"A young negro is bending over a pressing machine/ in the tailor's shop on the corner/the white steam rising into his face" Well that's, more or less, mostly, what I mean by something seen in a moment...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 205
[Allen Ginsberg in 1959 - Photograph by Joe Rosenthal for the San Francisco Chronicle]"Baby-faced Allen Ginsberg revealed" is the headline. At the end of last year, staff archivist Steve Cooney went...
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Allen Ginsberg at Gemini G.E.L - 1
[Allen Ginsberg at Gemini G.E.L artists studio, Los Angeles, July 24, 1996 - Photograph by Sidney B Felsen]Some weeks back we put up a post about Allen's artistic hand with signed editions, with book...
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Allen Ginsberg at Gemini G.E.L - 2
[ "Harry Smith's Birthday Party" - 2-color lithograph and screen print - 32 1/4 x 24 1/2 - limited edition for Gemini G.E.L, Los Angeles, by Allen Ginsberg, 1998]["The Ballad of The Skeletons" -...
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Meditation and Poetics - 36 (William Wordsworth)
[Tintern Abbey - Gothic Cistercian Abbey Ruins on the River Wye in South Wales - immortalized in William Wordsworth's poem] [Poetry and Meditation- Allen Ginsberg (from the Summer of 1978,...
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Meditation and Poetics - 37 (Wales Visitation)
[Allen Ginsberg - Autograph and Typescript Working Draft of a portion of the 1967 poem "Wales Visitation"]AG: I want to follow that up [that reading and discussion of Wordsworth's "..Tintern Abbey"]...
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Meditation and Poetics - 38 (Reznikoff - 8)
Continuing with Charles Reznikoff What I want to do, since we've got (a few) minutes, is some brief poems that he did in 1934"Jerusalem the Golden was published by the Objectivist Press from 10 West...
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Meditation and Poetics - 39 (Reznikoff - 9)
[Audio: March 21 1974 at SFSU (San Francisco State University - Charles Reznikoff reads a selection of his poetry (introduced by George Oppen) - in front of "a whole crowd of poets in San Francisco...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 206
Last week, we broke the news of Michael Schumacher's upcoming Ginsberg digest -TheEssential Ginsberg, this week, more publication news - Publishers Weekly announced the upcoming "I Greet You at the...
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Happy Birthday Philp Glass
["Jewel Heart Center, Ann Arbor Michigan, Philip Glass, Gelek Rinpoche& Allen Ginsberg, November 17, 1989" - Photo inscribed "for Philip" by Allen Ginsberg]Philip Glass is 78 years old todayWords...
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Meditation and Poetics - 40 (Reznikoff - 10)
[New York Public Library and Bryant Park c.1910 - "just walking around, four in the afternoon"] AG: It's amazing how he (Charles Reznikoff) did his work. He was like a saint in that way. He...
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Meditation and Poetics - 41 (Reznikoff - 11)
[New York City Street View, 1917, Broadway, near 17th Street - Photograph - The Brown Brothers via New York Times Photo Archives] AG: [reading Charles Reznikoff] - (2o) - There's three lines I...
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Meditation and Poetics - 42 (Reznikoff - 12)
[Allen's read through of Charles Reznikoff's work continues] "Asylum Product" (page 122) - "Brown and black felt" - [It's an asylum product] - Brown and black felt, unevenly stitched with purple...
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Meditation and Poetics - 43 (Reznikoff 13)
[Charles Reznikoff, aged 81, in New York City, 1975 - Photograph by Abraham Ravett] [St Marks Poetry Project, NYC, 1970 flyer-announcement for Charles Reznikoff reading - designed by George...
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William Burroughs' 101 (July 1985 reading at Naropa)
William S Burroughs at 101 - All of the focus on the Centennial last year, but the time has come around again. February 5 - It's William Burroughs' birthday.To celebrate we're running this audio - an...
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