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Spontaneous Poetics - 71
But our main theme at the moment is, what form does thought arrive in the brain? and, to what extent does that determine your method of transcription? To what extent does that mean you have to be a...
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Gary Snyder's Birthday
["On Prose vs Poetry, Work Poems" - Gary Snyder - speaking and reading at the 10th Annual Robert Creeley Awards, Acton, Massachusetts, 2010]It'sGary Snyder's birthday today. He's 83 years old. We draw...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 72 (continuing)
[Allen Ginsberg and Andrei Voznesensky in June 1985 in Allen's New York City East 12th Street apartment - photograph by Hank O'Neal] Student: I'd like to get back to the echoes..the thoughts echoing...
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Taylor Mead (1924 – 2013)
Thank you Taylor, for making our world a brighter place while you were here.Sebastian Piras' footage of Allen and Taylor together (in 1997, visiting Allen's new loft) is available hereBrief notices...
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Friday Weekly Round-Up - 125
[Allen Ginsberg and Naomi Ginsberg, both at the age of 30 - drawings byR.B.Kitaj, included in Kaddish, White Shroud, and Black Shroud by Allen Ginsberg, with an Introduction by Helen Vendler, and...
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Footage from Allen's 1988 visit to Japan - the Q & A following his lecture, given on November 3rd, 1988, at Kyoto Seika University on "What The East Means to Me". Allen stands in front of a packed...
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Yesterday's transcription of Allen's Q & A at the Kyoto Seika University, Japan, on November 2 1988, is followed today by footage (and transcription) of the full lecture - "What the East Means To...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 73 (Universal and Particular)
[William Blake - Albion Rose from "A Large Book of Designs" (1793-6)]"..everyone has language moving within them, everybody has secret thoughts and direct, absolute, perceptions, big as any Buddha....
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Spontaneous Poetics - 74 (Deep Stenography)
AG: Well, I still want to get back to where we started which was, what's your phenomenology of mind? What's the phenomenon of what we call consciousness? or what we call language? How does it arrive to...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 75 ("This Is Just To Say")
[William Carlos Williams' poem, "This Is Just To Say", displayed as a tattoo]July 2, 1976, Allen's summer lecture at Naropa continuesAG: I’m going to continue with the different considerations of...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 76 (Typography - 1)
["A manuscript page of an unpublished Ginsberg poem" - to illustrate the 1966 Paris Review interview]AG: Typographical typography – topography – Typographical Topography – I invented that category! -...
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Friday Weekly Round-Up - 126
The DVD documentary - Jerry Aronson's The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (2008) was re-released this week by Docudrama. What can we say? - If you still don't have it, an essential item.Michael...
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Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima Reading Naropa 1974
[Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Diane Di Prima]Another vintage Naropa audio, following on from this and this. This, arguably the earliest - from 1974 - Allen, Anne Waldman and Diane di Prima at the...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 77 (Typography - 2)
AG: In that area (typography) (William Carlos) Williams is interesting. And Charles Olson, in a way, is a champion typographer, in the sense that he's making use of the scattering of the lines on the...
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Remembering Robert Creeley
[Robert Creeley (1926-2005) - Photograph by Michael Romanos]Robert Creeleywould have been 87 today. We celebrate him always. We draw your attention to our previous...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 78
[Walt Whitman - selection from an original ms for "Song of Myself" from Leaves of Grass, courtesy the Humanities Research Center, University of Texas] Allen Ginsberg, Summer 1976, on "Spontaneous...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 79 (Ed Marshall)
AG: I got turned onto that partly by Kerouac's Mexico City Blues, which were divisions of thought into the spaces of a notebook page, but for larger draughts of thought, or larger breaths of thought, I...
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Friday Weekly Round-Up - 127
[Apparition of the young Allen Ginsberg in the window of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco - Photograph bySteve Silberman] Beat Memories, Allen's photo show opened yesterday at the...
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On Bob Dylan's Birthday
[Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg in Albert Grossman's kitchen, photo: c. Douglas Gilbert] Raymond Foye has generously provided us with this account (that first appeared in the 1998 Dylan anthology,...
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William Blake's Laughing Song
Laughing Song by William BlakeWhen the green woods laugh with the voice of joyAnd the dimpling stream runs laughing by,When the air does laugh with our merry wit,And the green hill laughs with the...
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