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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 218
[Ming Hui - translation of the opening lines of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" into Mandarin]from a recent interview (Q & A) in the New York Times with poet and translator, Willis...
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Plutonian Ode, 1978, (The Robert Creeley Recording)
[Robert Creeley (1926-2005) - Photograph by Michael Romanos]Last weekend, we featured Allen reading (from "Kaddish" and other poems) as part of the Robert Creeley...
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Student Poetry & Abstraction - (Debating with Francine)
[A jar of hot air]AG: So the question is, has twentieth-century poetry, in its attempt to define itself in space and time and locate itself and become down-to-earth and renew the language and renew the...
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Meditation and Poetics - 82 (Philip Whalen and Abstraction)
[Philip Whalen (1923-2002)]Student:Allen, (I just wanted to read to you) from Philip Whalen’s “Small Tantric Sermon”) “To say concisely/That the...
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Meditation and Poetics - 70 - (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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Poetry Is Lamb Dust - (Kerouac in Desolation Angels)
Allen Ginsberg’s Meditation and Poetics class from August (August 4, 1978, in this particular segment) continuesAG: Does anybody have any trouble with this preliminary sitting? – when I come here and...
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Do The Meditation
We've been serializing these past few months (and will be continuing a little longer with) Allen's 1978 (Naropa) lectures on Meditation and Poetics. As an amalgam of the two, what more fitting (and...
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May 1st - (May Day - Kral Majales)
Check out past May Day postings on the Allen Ginsberg Project - here,here and hereeven, (last year's) hereA special May Day this year, it's the 50th anniversary of Allen's fleeting elevation to Kral...
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Colin Still - Optic Nerve
[Colin Still]Colin Still and Optic Nerve's poetic documentation and extraordinary achievement needs to be sung. So we're singing it today here.By now, perhaps, many...
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Christopher Smart - 1
[Christopher Smart (1722-1771)[Allen’s 1978 Meditation and Poetics class continues. He begins by briefly surveying some of the recent topics that...
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Christopher Smart - 2
[Angelic Musicians - from Agnolo Gaddi's "Coronation of the Virgin" (c.1370)]Allen continueshis readings from Christopher Smart"Of Spiritual Music" For the spiritual musick is as follows.For...
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[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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Christopher Smart - 3
[from "For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry" - poem by Christopher Smart - (illustrated print by Paul Bommer)]"For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry" - Allen concludes his reading of Christopher Smart...
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Walt Whitman Lists - 5
["..Off on the lakes the pike-fisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface"]I wanted to finish (by) comparing that (Christopher Smart) with what will come after, which is haiku, (but,...
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Friday May 8 - Gary Snyder's Birthday
[Gary Snyder - July 2002 - Photo by John Suiter]Gary Snyder's 85th birthday today. Here's Gary interviewed by Eliot Weinberger, back in 1992, for the Paris Review.Here's the full interview that...
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David Menconi Interview - 1 (Allen Ginsberg in 1987 Surveys His Musical...
[Allen Ginsberg with accompanist, Steven Taylor- performing live in Europe, 1986]Allen Ginsberg, in 1987, surveys his musical history.The interview (from which these remarks are excerpted)...
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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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