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"The Bishop, Lawless" and "All Night By The Rose" (Early English Lyric - 2)
AG: I read this about a year ago and understood it for the first time and really dug it."The Bishop, Lawless"? - without law?, without any learning?.. You got it? - Page six. Bishop lawless,/ King...
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Just out this month, from Blackberry Books, Franco Beltrametti's posthumous collection, From Almost Everywhere Gary Snyder on Franco Beltrametti: "Franco Beltrametti's smooth-barked Muse leads him...
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Ezra Pound's Birthday
[Ezra Pound (1885-1972)]We featured acouple of days ago, the early English lyric, "Summer is Icumen in"(commonly known as "The Cuckoo Song")Ezra...
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Halloween
Vintage Paul McCartney mask, vintage Allen Ginsberg stoned, Halloween face-painting, followed by a serious (and still timely) song by Messeurs Ginsberg and McCartney - with lyrics sub-titled in...
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Poems from Tea at The Kalapa Court
Randy Roark's been posting some pretty interesting Ginsberg miscellanea over on Our Allen. This is one of the most interesting. - "Poems from Tea at the Kalapa Court". As Randy, in a note about it,...
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Kerouac / Shakespeare
Allen's 1979 Naropa class on Basic Poetics continues. He continues surveying the early English poems in the Norton Anthology AG: "Merciles Beaute" by Chaucer - (page) 53 - What I'm hitting are...
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Chaucer - Merciles Beaute
Merciles Beaute Your eyen two wol slee me sodenly, I may the beautè of hem not sustene, So woundeth hit through-out my herte kene. And but your word wol helen hastily My hertes wounde, whyl that hit is...
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"I Sing of A Maiden.."
What else? - "I syng of a mayden…." page 56 - This has a real uncanny sound. Does anybody know this one? Has anybody run across this ever? - "I syng of a mayden that is makeles" - matchless - makeles,...
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Per The Assignment
For the assignment:Student: Does it rhyme?AG: Does this [ "I sing of a mayden…"] rhyme?Student: Yeah. I mean (should) our (assignment) poems?AG: Well, "was-grass", "hour-flower", "lay-spray",...
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[Allen Ginsberg's 437 East 12th Street, New York City kitchen (looking out on the corridor/hallway), November 1987 - Photograph byGordon Ball - (images of Rimbaud, TrungpaandWhitmanvisible on...
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"Mugging"
Allen Ginsberg reads "Mugging" at the University of Cincinnati's Elliston Poetry Room on April 23, 1975 Tonite I walked out of my red apartment door on East tenth street’s dusk— Walked out of my home...
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Ginsberg in 1977 at Cincinnati
"Mugging", we featured yesterday. Here's the rest of Allen's reading from 1977 at the University of CincinnatiThe opening chant, (a long mantric repetition of (shri ram jai ram jai jai rama), is...
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"Devil and Man"
AG continues his review of early English lyricsAG: Okay, so going on to (page) 60 - This is… I was looking at this today, and it reminded me what (Bob) Dylan is laying down on his latest album, so I...
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"I have a young sister" (page 63). Oh yeah, everybody knows this one. Joan Baez sings it, I don't know…does anybody know the Joan Baez song, "I sent my love a cherry, without any stone.." Do you know...
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AG: Now what's next, oh I like that "Gentle Cock" that's pretty funny. I think. I couldn't believe it when I read it! - "I have a gentle cock,/ Croweth the day/He doth me risen early/My matins for to...
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Lord Buckley
[Richard Buckley - Lord Buckley (1906-1960) - Photograph by Charles Campbell]M'lords, m'ladies of the Royal Court" - Fifty-five years since the passing of the great Lord Buckley. Just re-released by...
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[Howl & Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg - recent edition - Mojo Publishing House, Taipei,Taiwan (2015)]All this talk about Allen Ginsberg's ubiquity. "Did you know", I said, "Did you know...
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William Burroughs (1989 - Part 1)
[William S Burroughs - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg © The Estate of Allen Ginsberg]Always a pleasure to feature William Burroughs here on the Ginsberg blog. Today, a reading from July 1989- "Art Now -...
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William Burroughs, 1989 - Part 2
William Burroughs audio (see yesterday) continuesWSB: Cambridge Mass 1938 - that was the year of the big hurricane - Kells Elvins and your reporter were writing a shipwreck story based on the sinking...
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Queer Beat -1
Gay Ginsberg. The poster's a vintage one (1977) - a bearded Allen at Naropa - a benefit for Gay Liberation The significance of Allen in the Gay Liberation struggle need hardly be stressed, one of the...
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