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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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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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Haiku - 1 (Spiritual Origins of Haiku)
[Bodhidharma(Daruma) - the Indian founder of Zen Buddhism, which he brought to China and subsequently Japan - from the British Museum collection - a Japanese hanging scroll painting from the Momoyama...
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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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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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Haiku - 2 (Zenrin-kushu continues)
["..the wave exhibits the spiritual nature of the moon"] [Allen continues with his reading from R.H.Blyth’s classic anthology of Japanese haiku] AG:...
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Haiku - 3 (more from Zenrin-kushu)
["To have the sun and moon in one sleeve/To hold the universe in the palm of one's hand"]Allen continues from the Zenrin-kushu: "To have the sun and moon in one sleeve./ To hold the...
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Allen Ginsberg's "Beat" Correspondence with Paul Bertram
[Allen Ginsberg to Paul Bertram (1928-2013) , in 1947, from the Ginsberg-Bertram letters]Readers+Writers Journal, this week, announced the discovery (in a trove of newly-found letters and...
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Haiku - 4 - (Zhuangzi)
[Hokusai (1760-1849) - Philosopher Watching A Pair of Butterflies (1814) - plate from picture-book, Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden National Museum of Ethnography] So what I’d like to do...
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Meditation and Poetics - 81 (Student Poetry & Abstraction - Debating with...
[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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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 219
[Allen Ginsberg on Times Square via the Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests - Times Square, May 1, 2015. Photograph by Ka-Man Tse for @TSqArts][Andy Warhol, Screen Test: Allen Ginsberg [ST115], 1966, 16mm film,...
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David Menconi's Allen Ginsberg Interview part 2
David Menconi's 1987 Interview with Allen Ginsberg (featured here last week) continues: AG: (So) I was working here at Naropa from 1978 to 1983, getting a small salary, but also contributing money to...
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Haiku 5 (Śrāvaka Buddha)
[Hanging scroll of an Indian Buddhistarhat by Japanese painter, Shiba Kokan (1747-1818)]AG: Then there's the Śrāvaka Buddha as part of the Hinayana. The guy who just meditates for himself and...
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Haiku - 6 (More Haiku)
[Shinsui Ito (1898-1972) - wood-block print - Night Rain at Mii Temple (1917)]AG: So this is obviously one proceeding from meditative state, now.“Rain at Night”A...
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Haiku - 7 (Haiku - continued)
Meeting, the two old friends laugh aloud In the grove, the fallen leaves are many.Packed in and sleeping with others Again getting up from this night’s...
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Haiku - 8 (Haiku continued part 2)
[Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)]I'm halfway through this book [R.H.Blyth – Haiku – Volume 1], so actually I could zap through the chief...
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The Essential Ginsberg
Next Tuesday (May 26th) is the official publication-date for the new Allen Ginsberg book (published by HarperCollins in the United States and by Penguin in the United Kingdom and Australia) - The...
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