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Allen Ginsberg's FBI files
[Allen Ginsberg in Cuba with a plane shot down in The Bay of Pigs]We are immensely grateful to Shawn Musgrave and MuckRock for the recent (April, 2015) release...
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Sunday May 24th - Bob Dylan's Birthday
Emperor (Allen Ginsberg): I've heard through the grapevine that you have certain powersAlchemist (Bob Dylan): Oh no, that's not me but I know who you mean Emperor (Allen Ginsberg): You're not the...
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Haiku - 9 (Haiku continued)
AG: One (haiku) that suggests space: Oh, snail climb Mt. Fuji, but slowly, slowly.That's Issa, who is the most like William Carlos Williams in temperament - that is to say, he includes...
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Haiku - 10 (Ginsberg on Haiku continues)
Student: (Allen, what about the sound in (haiku) poems?) AG: Oh, sure. There's a whole sound (presented) in certain of these books, if you want the sound. These books by (R.H.) Blyth, he'll give...
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Haiku - 11 (Haiku and The Gap of Space)
AG: (Haiku) …and the gap of spaceBillowing clouds -An antclimbs on to the ink stone(The ink stone where he's mixing his ink to make the painting of the billowing clouds) - "Billowing clouds -/An...
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Haiku 12 (Allen Ginsberg Haiku Class)
遠山が目玉にうつるとんぼ哉tôyama ga medama ni utsuru tombo kanaReflected In the eye of the dragonflyThe distant hills(Issa)Student: Allen?AG: YesStudent: ((The compound) eye of a dragonfly, (comprises) a thousand...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 220
Tomorrow in New York City, courtesy HarperCollins and the Allen Ginsberg Estate, at the new Howl Happening exhibition space, celebrations for The Essential Ginsberg . Readings and performances by Andy...
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The 1996 National Security Archive Interview part 1
[Allen Ginsberg, reading at The Knitting Factory, New York City, 1995]Poetry and politics - The 'Fifties and the 'Sixties. Allen Ginsberg's August 8 1996 interview with...
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(Sunday May 31) (The 1996 National Security Archive Interview part 2)
[Allen Ginsberg, reading at The Knitting Factory, New York City, 1995]Allen's 1996 Interview for the National Security Archive at George Washington University continues from hereAG: So...
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Meditation and Poetics - 100 - Haiku and Trikaya
AG: (I asked you to look at) forms and haiku structure. Does anybody remember that? – or did anybody notate (or make) notes on that?Student: (I did and noticed…)AG: Louder!Student: (I did and noticed...
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Meditation and Poetics - 101 - Haiku and Trikaya - 2
It struck me that the one perfect haiku that I wrote in Court the other day (sic), in Golden Courthouse, [Golden, Colorado] did actually examine, ((in) hindsight, written before (Chogyam) Trungpa...
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Wednesday June 3 - Allen Ginsberg's Birthday
Every year it blossoms. The tree planted in memory of Allen in the back yard atSt Mark's Church - the flowering dogwood, the good old Kousa dogwood. It did it again this year(See previous flowering...
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And All The Hills Echo-ed - Ginsberg in 1986 in Belgrade
"And all the hills echo-ed"- Allen delighted in performing this one - "The Nurse's Song" (from "Songs of Innocence and Experience" byWilliam Blake). Here's two alternative versions of the song here...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 221
The David Olio "Please Master" case (our focus last week) remains in the news (as well it should). Here's Jerry Aronson, director of The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg reading recently-unearthed...
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Allen and Louis Ginsberg - Alan Ziegler's 1976 Visit
We were intending to run (re-run) this - Alan Ziegler's extraordinary account of visiting with Allen, and Louis, shortly before his father's death, (first published in The Village Voice in July of...
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Allen Ginsberg on the Conan O'Brien tv show
After the heady interview last week, here's a somewhat lighter one, a May 1994 appearance on the late night American talk-show "Late Night with Conan O'Brien.We've already run his performance of "Put...
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Meditation and Poetics - 102 - (Mexico City Blues)
AG: Years ago, I read a lot of (Jack) Kerouac’s Mexico City Bluesto (Chogyam) Trungpa , and his comment was, “perfect manifestation of mind”, or “ (perfect) exposition of mind”, and, since I had put...
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Mexico City Blues 2 - (The Discriminating Mind)
Student: AllenAG: Yes?Student: That’s [Mexico City Blues] also (an) essay formAG: Probably sonataformStudent: Essay and sonata formAG: Well, it’s [(Chorus 24) is] just basically just logic. A...
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"Mind is shapely, Art is shapely"
[The Sleeping Gypsy (La Bohémienne endormie) (1897) - byHenri "Douanier" Rousseau - oil on canvas 51" x 79" in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York] AG: Yes?Student: I was wondering if...
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Mexico City Blues - 3
AG: The most amazing weird formulations are in (Jack Kerouac's Mexico City Blues) in the 32nd Chorus:"Newton's theory of relativity/and grave gravity/is that rocks'll fall on your head/ Pluto is the...
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