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Another Student Assignment Poem - After "Lyke Wake Dirge"
Another Student Assignment Poem - After "Lyke Wake Dirge"Allen's January, 1980 Naropa class. Allen begins with a spontaneous couplet AG: "Turn in your homework this or next hour /and mark them with...
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Frank Lima
From his long poem, and the title poem to his new (posthumously-published) book, "Incidents of Travel in Poetry" - Frank Lima:"…We move the sun to South/America. Neruda had become an organic poet...
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One More on "..Mayden" (Mayden via Pound)
AG: (Ezra) Pound’s analysis of poetry, which I mentioned some time before included melopoeia, which is what we’re dealing with now, the melody, rhythmic melody, phanopoeia, which I started with in the...
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Important breaking-news (regarding an earlier posting) - a Saudi court earlier this week overturned the death-sentence on poet Ashraf Fayadh - but hardly proposing leniency!His new punishment? - He's...
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A William Burroughs Weekend
[William S Burroughs - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg - © The Estate of Allen Ginsberg]It's a William Burroughsweekend this weekend on The Allen Ginsberg Project. Our all-time most popular post here on...
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Alliterative Verse (The Kalevala - 1)
[Inside front title page of the "Old"Kalevala, Finnish, national epic, collection of old Finnish poems, by Elias Lonnrot. First edition - Volume 2, 1835. Page text reads "Kalevala or the old...
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Alliterative Verse (The Kalevala - 2)
[ Väinämöinen (1866) - Robert Wilheim Ekman (1808-1873)][Allen continues his reading from Francis Peabody Magoun's translation of The Kalevala.] AG: Then he...
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William Dunbar's Lament For The Makers - 1
[William Dunbar (1460-1520)]AG: (searching through his anthology) (Is (Robert) Creeley ….in the Norton book?… yeah, one-two-two-five..yeah, I...
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William Dunbar's Lament For The Makers - 2
[detail from "The Triumph of Death" (c.1562) - Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (1525-1569), in the collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid] continuing from yesterday AG:...
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[Bernie Sanders and Allen Ginsberg, Burlington Vermont, 1983 - Photograph ©Phyllis Segura.1983]This week, do we need to run again the Ginsberg Bernie Sanders poem? (see above a picture of their 1983...
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Ginsberg-Orlovsky-Taylor, Wuppertal, Germany, 1983
Allen Ginsberg Back to Wuppertal 1983"Back to Wuppertal" is the title of the poem Allen Ginsberg scribbled into the guest-book of the Forum for International Poetry one hour after his arrival in...
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Ginsberg/Podhoretz
Ginsberg/Podhoretz - Allen versus his arch-nemesis - "When Norman Podhoretz Spent The Night With Allen Ginsberg", Tabletthis month featured a lengthy excerpt from Daniel Oppenheimer's new book...
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Source of the Glamor
[Thirty-Fourth and Broadway (Herald Square), New York City c. 1939 - Photograph by Rudy Burckhardt] Student: What if you live on Broadway?AG: Well broad/ way, you've got it, you got it made! If you...
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Sing-Song in "Lament For The Makers"
Allen continues his observations on William Dunbar's "Lament For The Makers"- see also here)AG: The other thing that I was digging in this poem (Dunbar's "Lament For The Makers") was..this is, I guess,...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt's Sing-Song
[Angel Playing Lute - detail from Presentation of The Temple (1510) - Vittore Carpaccio (1466-1525) at the Accademia, Venice, Italy)] AG: So what's next? - Another funny thing.. Well, there's some...
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Wyatt's Influence
[Portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt - Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1497-1543) - black and colored chalks and pen and ink on pink-primed paper , 37.3 x 27.2cm, Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, England]AG: So...
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[Allen Ginsberg, photographed at Wichita State University in 1966. The Parnassus Yearbook reported that "Ginsberg caused mixed emotions on campus when he read controversial poetry to over 300 in...
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Mind Writing Slogans
Rick and Rosemary Ardinger's Limberlost Press in Boise, Idaho, in 1994, published an edition, of 800 copies, of Allen's classic Mind Writing Slogans. There had been, as the dates at the bottom attest,...
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Skeltonics & Rap
AG: So then there's (John) Skelton, another funny guy - for sound. Where is Skelton here? What page have we got Skelton on?Student: Seventy-SixAG: Yeah, right after (William Dunbar). Seventy...
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Skelton - Masculine & Feminine Rhymes
Anne Waldman: A couple of notes here, if you want, this is in the Collected SkeltonAG: Oh, great. Where did you get it?..Anne Waldman: In England.AG: Well, do you have anything specific? Is there...
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