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Meditation and Poetics) (Whitman 12 - Respondez! - 1)
[Allen Ginsberg's August 1978 Naropa class on Walt Whitman continues. Gregory Corso and Allen today examine the poem "Respondez!"] Gregory Corso: AllenAG: YesGregory Corso: (Walt) Whitman had a...
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(Tuesday April 7) Billie Holiday Centennial
[Billie Holiday (1915-1959), New York, 1949 - Photograph by Herman Leonard]Today, April 7, 2015 is the Billie Holiday CentennialBillie Holiday was born, Eleanora Fagan, in Philadelphia...
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Meditation and Poetics - (Whitman 14 - Respondez! 3)
[from Walt Whitman's expurgated poem from Leaves of Grass - "Respondez!"]AG: I mean, I’m a… ("Respondez!") - I think that’s where he's ultimately… he (Whitman) really reveals himself... that he’s got...
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Meditation and Poetics (Whitman 13 - Respondez! - 2)
[from Walt Whitman's 1867 publication of the poem "Respondez!"]Okay.. [Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso continue reading and reviewing Whitman’s Civil War poem,...
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Baudelaire's Birthday
[Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) circa 1862 – Photograph by Etienne Carjat]“Baudelairewould have liked Billie Holiday” (Allen Ginsberg journal note, December 1960). (Actually, we just finished...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 216
Hal Willner's 60th anniversary celebrations in L.A. for "Howl" this past week turned out to be a grand success. From Tim Grierson's account of the evening, for Rolling Stone:"Nearly 60 years after its...
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Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Ken Kesey at the 1982 Jack Kerouac...
[Vintage Ephemera - Poster from the 1982 Naropa Jack Kerouac Conference]Another classic piece of audio this week fromthe 1982 Jack Kerouac Conference.We've been...
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Judith Malina (1926-2015)
A page turns. One of the great pioneering American counter-cultural icons,Judith Malina (co-founder with her late husband Julian Beck) of the...
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Meditation and Poetics (Walt Whitman's Lists - 1)
["The List Poem", "Catalog Verse" - & from the ms. of Christopher Smart's "Jubilate Agno"]August 4, Allen Ginsberg’s 1978 class at Naropa Institute, Meditation and Poetics, continues. Allen begins...
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Meditation and Poetics (Walt Whitman Lists - 2)
["The jour printer with grey head and gaunt jaws works at his case/He turns his quid of tobacco, his eyes get blurred with the manuscript." (Walt Whitman)] AG: So the Whitmantext (section 15of “Song of...
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Meditation and Poetics (Walt Whitman Lists - 3)
AG [continuing to read from "Song of Myself" and quoting Whitman]: “The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron”. What is “The Wolverine”? Does anybody know?Student: It’s a...
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Meditation and Poetics (Walt Whitman Lists - 4)
["The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp." (Walt Whitman)] Allen in his Naropa class continues his line-by-line examination ofSection 15ofWalt...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 217
[Lawrence Ferlinghetti standing outside his "Banned Books" display at City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, in the early 1950's]The David Olio "Please Master" Censorship case - some update. Steve...
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Kaddish, 1959, the Robert Creeley Recording)
[Kaddish (50th Anniversary edition), Allen painted by Naomi, Allen & Naomi]Allen's classic poem "Kaddish" has been featured on several occasions on The Allen Ginsberg...
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Meditation and Poetics - 77 - (A Little Focus on Detail)
["When Dick the Shepherd blows his nail" - (from William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, Act V Scene 2 - "Winter") - painting by Edward Frederick Brewtnall (1846-1902), 1886 - oil on canvas (76.5 x...
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Meditation and Poetics - 78 (Phanopoeia, Logopoeia and Melopoeia)
[“Then nightly sings the staring owl/Tu-whoo!/Tu-whit! tu whoo!" (William Shakespeare)]AG: Okay. I don’t know if we’ve gone through this, but Ezra Pound had three characteristics, or...
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Meditation and Poetics - 79 (Bob Dylan's Logopoeia)
['To live outside the law you must be honest" (Bob Dylan)]AG: Now most people’s intelligence in poetry when they’re amateurs comes from just imitating other poems and recycling used poems, basically....
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Meditation and Poetics - 80 (Penfield's Homunculus)
AG: Has anyone seen Penfield’s Homunculus? – the homunculoid picture drawn on the surface of the brain according to the areas of the brain that relate to the different senses? I think (the) mouth is...
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Sunday April 5 - Allen Ginsberg Parinirvana
[Allen Ginsberg performs "Father Death Blues"]It's Allen Ginsberg'sparinirvanatoday, the (eighteenth) anniversary of his passing.Here's Herbert Huncke, "godfather of The Beats", on "the invisible...
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Meditation and Poetics - 69 (Whitman 12 - Respondez! - 1)
[Allen Ginsberg's August 1978 Naropa class on Walt Whitman continues. Gregory Corso and Allen today examine the poem "Respondez!"] Gregory Corso: AllenAG: YesGregory Corso: (Walt) Whitman had a...
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