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Queer Beat - 2 - (Straight Hearts' Delight)
One of the great (sadly out-of-print) Ginsberg titles (but something well worth hunting down) is the selection published in 1980 by Winston Leyland's pioneering Gay Sunshine Press - Straight Hearts'...
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Allen to Peter, 1961 (on Dissolution of Ego)
[Allen Ginsbergand Peter Orlovsky - Photograph by Robert Frank]The Ginsberg-Orlovsky correspondence. Mindful thatyesterday we provided you only with selected snippets. Here's...
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Oyez Press Kral Majales
Kral Majales - We've spotlighted several times before (here,here and here)but today we wanted to spotlight the beautiful phallic 1965 Robert LaVigne-designed Oyez Press posterAnd the Communists have...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 245
[Allen Ginsberg's desk in his bedroom in New York, 437 East 12th Street , 1986 - Photograph by Dave Breithaupt]Michael Schumacher's The Essential Ginsberg has not been getting the attention we had...
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Peter Orlovsky - A Triple-X Reading, August 1980
Peter Orlovsky - A Triple-X reading. Peter Orlovsky (from a reading given at Naropa Institute, August 13, 1980), introduced by Allen Ginsberg Listen to the audio herePeter Orlovsky - A Triple-X...
View Article"Western Wind" and "A Thousand Miles Away From Home"
Allen Ginsberg continues his discussion of early English lyricsAG: "Westron Wynde" - Does anybody know that? - "Westron wynde, when wilt thou blow?" - Huh? - Before we get there - wait a minute- yeah,...
View ArticleLyke Wake Dirge - 1
AG: And then the next one, the Lie-Awake Dirge the Lyke Wake Dirge - the Lie-Awake Dirge - “the night watch kept over a corpse". So this is really the… this is really a great powerful (one). Does...
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Lyke Wake Dirge - 2 (Metrics)
AG: Okay, let us say that (for an assignment for the class) either you do a version of "I Sing of A Maiden that’s makeles” or lie-awake dirge (Lyke Wake Dirge) – one or the other, rhythmically. They’re...
View Article"The Maidens Came"
And for today just one more…. [Allen continues with his survey for his class at the Naropa Institute, in July 1980, on early English poetry]AG: Now William Dunbar (next), page seventy-two…. (but),...
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"Jolly Good Ale and Old"
AG: So… “Jolly Good Ale and Old”. Does anybody know that one? Did anybody ever sing that, Jolly Good Ale and Old? Student: Yes. Many times.AG: Where? Is there a song (to it)? Is there a tune?...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 246
[Guillaume Apollinaire by Picasso]Guillaume Apollinaire - Zone - Selected Poems - "The fruit of poet-translator Ron Padgett's fifty-year engagement with the work of France's greatest modern poet" -...
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Ashraf Fayadh Appeal - Urgent
[Ashraf Fayadh]From a letter presented this morning (Friday November 27) to His Excellency Shaykh Dr Mohammed bin Abdulkareem Al-Issa at...
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Allen Ginsberg & David Henderson at Naropa 1981 (part one)
[David Henderson - Photo by John Sarsgard]...
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Allen Ginsberg and David Henderson at Naropa 1981 (part two)
[David Henderson - Photo by Michah Saperstein] [Allen Ginsberg] Allen's 1981...
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H. Phelps Putnam - Hasbrouk and the Rose
[H Phelps Putnam (1894-1948)]Allen's Basic Poetics class (today from July 1st, 1980) continues. The tape begins approximately one-and-a-half...
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Ezra Pound - Background to Canto LXXXI
AG: …..And then I mentioned.. we had that little poem by Chaucer-“Your two bright eyes will slay me suddenly,/I may the beauty of them not sustain” [ Your eyen two wol slee me sodenly,/I may the...
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Ezra Pound - Canto LXXXI
AG: So I’ll just read that little fragment of (Ezra) Pound - ["Your eyen two wol sleye me soddenly/I may the beaute of hem nat susteyne"] - It’s a little bit of.. little bit of gossip. I’ll just read...
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Ezra Pound's Cantos - 2
[Ezra Pound (1885-1972)]AG: So he [Ezra Pound]’s gathering (in Canto LXXXI) from "fine old ear" of Chaucer, that marriage of sense, intellect...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 247
From the audio-visual archives of RTBF, Belgium's public-broadcasting organization for the French-speaking community, this delightful footage of Allen (and Peter Orlovsky and Steven Taylor) in Belgium...
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William Burroughs 1980 Naropa Reading
[William Burroughs - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg - © The Estate of Allen Ginsberg ]Today, William Burroughs, from a three-person poetry reading that took place at Naropa Institute on...
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