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Ginsberg at UMass, Lowell, part 2 - (Whalen,Sakaki, Creeley,Wieners, Corso
Allen Ginsberg's Beat class (at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell) continuesAG: There's another interesting poet almost as old as (Jack) Kerouac, that was part of the..what was called San...
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Warren Beatty & Madonna
[Warren Beatty and Madonna at Francesco Clemente's New Years Eve Party, 1990-1991 - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg - courtesy the Allen Ginsberg Photography Collection at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book...
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Sinead O'Connor
[Sinead O'Connor at Sin-é, New York, June 1992 - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg - courtesy the Allen Ginsberg Collection of Photographs at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of...
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Marianne Faithfull
[Marianne Faithfull performing at Sin-é, 1992 - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg - courtesy the Allen Ginsberg Collection of Photographs at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of...
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Joey Ramone
[Joey Ramone and Allen Ginsberg, 1992 - Photograph by Lynn Goldsmith]Lynn Goldsmith's charming picture of two icons - Joey Ramone and Allen Ginsberg furnishes the...
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Bob Dylan Films Allen Ginsberg
Well, guess who it was who was responsible for taking these ecstatic images of A.G, 1967,dancing for joy, in a London hotel-room? - Bob Dylan!Donn Pennebaker's groundbreaking cinéma vérité Dylan...
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Archilochus
In preparation for an upcoming spotlight on Greek and classical texts on the Allen Ginsberg Project in the coming weeks, a post on a book that is sadly out of print - Guy Davenport's Archilochos,...
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Davenport's Sappho and Alkman
Following on from yesterday's post. Here's a few more selections from GuyDavenport's book of classic Greek translations. We'll start off with, arguably, Sappho's most famous lyric - phainetai moi...
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Labor Day
[Postcard illustration of the first Labor Day Parade, New York City, 1882] [Labor Day gathering in New York City (Union Square) 1887 - Photograph via NewYork Public Library]...
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Sapphic Stanzas - An Anthology
[Sappho of Lesbos (c. 630-612 BCE - 570 BCE)]Sappho, the focus of a new series of newly-transcribed lectures here on the Allen Ginsberg Project.Allen got...
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Sappho continues - (Hymn to Aphrodite - Ed Sanders)
[Ed Sanders performs Sappho's"Hymn to Aphrodite" (accompanied by Steven Taylor) from a Danish CD from 1990 - "Songs in Ancient Greek"]AG: So to begin with now, beginning with Ed Sanders again.. but a...
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Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite - 2
[Sappho's "Hymn to Aphrodite" read in the original Greek in 1981 by Professor Stephen G Daitz ((including reproduction of Ancient Greek tonal inflections) for SORGLL (Society for the Oral Reading of...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 235
Featuring shots last week from 1967's fabled Human Be-In. Here's another one - from Lisa Law [Allen Ginsberg, Human Be-In Golden Gate Park, 1967- Photograph ©Lisa Law]and here's...
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Ginsberg's Catullus
[Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 – 54 BC) ]Allen to his brother Eugene, August 14, 1954:"You would love Catullus. I read a collection...
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Catullus (Latin Sapphics)
[Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 – 54 BC)]AG: So shall we go on.. [to John Burnett, Naropa student] - [did you prepare (φάινεταί μοι κῆνοσ ἴσοσ...
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Horace (Latin Sapphics)
AG: Then Horace. Now Horace was the next of the Romans that picked up on the Catullun line and from Sappho. And we didn't actually get to that, did we, at all? - did we ever bring up Horace, yet? [to...
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Horace - 2
AG: Pardon me?Student: ("Thracian") (What's the origin of "Thracian"?)AG: Thrace - part of Greece. (Where is that, where Thrace is, mind you) - Thrace? What part of Greece is Thrace? - Orpheus lived...
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William Carlos Williams' Birthday
[William Carlos Williams with his two sons, Paul and William, and his mother, circa 1918 (courtesy Beinecke Library, Yale, Special Collections]It'sWilliam Carlos Williams' birthday today, and to...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 236
[Allen Ginsberg in 1994, throwing the opening pitch at a San Francisco Giants game - Photograph by Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle]Steve Silberman gives a little of the back-story (in Our...
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