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Harold Norse 1980 Naropa Reading
[Harold Norse (1916-2009)][continuing from yesterday]AG: Okay - Are we about ready for Chapter two of the evening ? – Shall we go on now? -...
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Man Ray (1890-1976)
[Man Ray and Allen Ginsberg at the English Bookshop, Paris, 1961 - Photograph by Loomis Dean]Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky, 1890-1976)) and Allen Ginsberg in conversation (Peter Orlovsky)...
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Berenice Abbott (!898-1991)
[Allen Ginsbergand Berenice Abbott - Photograph by Hank O'Neal]From an interview, in 1991, with Thomas GladyszTG: In your book, Berenice Abbott is credited for her "off-hand...
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The Seafarer - 1
(Allen Ginsberg on Basic Poetics continues. Allen continues today with alliterative meter and (Ezra) Pound's translation of the old Anglo-Saxon poem, "The Seafarer")AG: So what else is there ? Now I...
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Ezra Pound - The Seafarer - 2
(Allen continues with his observations on alliterative meter, and (Ezra Pound's translation of) the classic Anglo-Saxon poem, "The Seafarer")AG: Well, that’s good solid sound that [referring to "The...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 248
[Allen Ginsberg, June 1959 - Photograph by Joe Rosenthal]Peter Hartlaub's engaging article for the San Francisco Chronicle's sesquicentennial history project, (on the Beat Generation), is well...
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Gary Snyder 1983 Naropa Reading - 1
Gary Snyder's reading at the Naropa Institute, on the occasion of the 1983 publication of his collection Axe Handles is this weekend's feature. The transcription of the reading will appear in two...
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Gary Snyder 1983 Naropa Reading - 2
[Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg - Photograph by Christopher Felver][Gary Snyder in the Sierras, 1994 - Photograph by Christopher Felver]Gary Snyder reading at Naropa, 1983 - continues from yesterday...
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Intro to Piers Plowman
["Scholar and Fabulist", J.R.R.Tolkien (1892-1973)] (Allen continues his remarks on early English poetry, continuing fromhere) AG: However, that’s the...
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Piers Plowman - 1
[The first page of "Piers Plowman' - Facsimilie from the ms. in the Bodleian Library]AG: We’ll start with a little fragment (from "Piers Plowman") of the original“In a somer seson, whan soft was...
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Piers Plowman - 2
[Page from the 14th century Luttrell Psalter, showing "en:drolleries." At the bottom is a plowman]Allen Ginsberg on Piers Plowman continuesAG: "In the summer season.." (first, the wandering out,...
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Anne Waldman - Napalm Health Spa's Celebration
[Anne Waldman]Jim Cohn's remarkable Napalm Health Spa we've featured on The Allen Ginsberg Project before (see, for...
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Piers Plowman - 3
["Thou mightest best measure the mist on Malvern hills.Than get a mum of their mouth till money be shown" - "Early morning mist at the foot of the Malvern hills in Worcestershire, UK" - Photo ©...
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Eliot Katz - The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg
Eliot Katz's new book,The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg is now out from David Wills'Beatdom books. For more details, see here Read his earlier response - (an unpublished letter to the New York...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 249
[Allen Ginsberg - Photograph by Cynthia Macadams]Lawrence Ferlinghetti on Reddit - on what is his favorite Allen Ginsberg poem - ""Aunt Rose" because it's a very touching, deep and profound expression...
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Ginsberg on Dylan (from "No Direction Home")
Allen Ginsberg not Alan Ginsberg! Some time back (January 2014) we ran part of this clip, but here it is again.Allen's comments are, of course, from the 2005 American Masters documentary (directed by...
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Auden's "The Age of Anxiety"
[W.H.Auden (1907-1973]Allen, continuing with his "Basic Poetics" class at Naropa - January 7, 1980AG: So Auden - W.H.Auden, the… who, incidentally, it was his anthology that I was...
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Beatnik Exploitation -1
A while back, we ran a number of posts on Beat sociology - "Beatniks"- and Beat ExploitationBeat Kitsch - see here and hereand here and hereThis recent post, from the indefatigable catalogers/bloggers...
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Beatnik Exploitation - 2
So yesterday's focus was on Beat sociology, Beat exploitation, Beat demonization (with a little bit of Beat co-option and shameless marketing thrown in.) Here's (those glorious lurid paperback book...
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Christmas Eve (Scrooge)
Seasonal fare on the Ginsberg Project today - Charles Dickens' "Scrooge", first and foremost re-interpreted by the great Lord Buckley (see our previous celebration of Lord Buckley here). MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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