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A Jack Kerouac Weekend - 2
[Jack Kerouac's original hand-drawn cover for On The Road][Jack Kerouac photographed by Allen Ginsberg - caption reads: "Jack Kerouac wandering along East 7th...
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Allen Ginsberg - Montreal 1969 (Q & A - 1)
[Allen Ginsberg in Havana, Cuba, 1965]Following his October 31 1969 reading in Montreal,Allen answers a number of questions from the audienceQ: What...
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Allen Ginsberg - Montreal 1969 (Q & A - 2)
[Allen Ginsberg in 1969]Q: (One of the most disturbing themes I think I see studying your poetry deals with tragedy…)AG: One of the most...
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Allen Ginsberg, Montreal, 1969 - Q & A - 3 (The Appointment)
Setting up An Appointment - A moment of quotidian practicality - A non-event on the Ginsberg blog today (we don't even have tape of the subsequent interview!) (from 1969)Interviewer: Mr Ginsberg, I’m...
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Allen Ginsberg, Montreal, 1969 - (Q & A - 4)
Q : (Is it true what they say about all these guys (who criticize)in the 'Fifties (like inJ.D) Salinger - Catcher In The Rye - Holden Caulfield - Were they all "Holden Caulfields", all the(se)...
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March 18, 1956. Sixty years since the legendary Town Hall Theater Berkeley reading. Tonight in that very space (now a neighborhood cafe called "Sconehenge" (sic)), Tom Ferrell and George Killingsworth...
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More Kerouac
[Three paperback covers for Jack Kerouac's 1958 novel - The Dharma Bums]Last weekend we featured the Naropa panel at the 1983 Kerouac Conference on Jack Kerouac's Buddhism and...
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More Kerouac - 2
[Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)]Q: (Gregory (Corso), (in several of his) remarks referred to (the first) conversations he’s had with Jack...
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Allen Ginsberg, Montreal 1989 - (Q & A - 5)
[Yoko Ono and John Lennon in London,1969]Continuing with the 1969 Montreal Q & AQ: Just to begin, how do you think [1969] the war in Vietnam will...
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Allen Ginsberg, Montreal 1969 Q & A - 6) (Drugs)
[Allen Ginsberg, 1966 poster from San Francisco advertising the famous Ken Kesey Acid Tests]Q: What is your present [1989] thinking about drugs?AG: Well, it looks like marijuana will slowly be...
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Allen Ginsberg Montreal 1989 Q & A - 7) (Kerouac)
[A flyer from the 2009 production in New York of Larry Myers play -"Jack Kerouac: Catholic" - "He (Jack) was proud of being a Canuck Catholic" (Allen Ginsberg)] Q: May I (now) ask you another...
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Ferlinghetti's Birthday
[Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Godot," 2008, Oil paints on canvas, 11 x 14 in. Photo by Ron Jones]Two Moscow memories from the recently-published Writing Across The Landscape"On...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 261
Recent Ginsberg volumes - The Essential Ginsberg (from HarperCollins) and Wait Till I'm Dead - UnCollected Poems (from Grove Press) - here's Library Journal's cogent and informative appraisals of the...
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A Gregory Corso Weekend
[Gregory Corso, Boulder, Colarado, July 1994 - Photograph by Seth Brigham][Gregory Corso - Self Portrait (undated)]A Gregory Corso weekend.. It's Gregory's birthday. He would...
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A Gregory Corso Weekend - 2
[Gregory Corso, Lowell, Massachusetts - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg © The Estate of Allen Ginsberg][One of Gregory Corso's triangles - a favorite game he played, drawing unexpected xonnections between...
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AG; Now, about the second part, [sic - "How do you reconcile a return to a traditional Jewish root with an enthusiastic interest in Hare Krishna? Do you think that a rabbinical tradition can, in some...
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Allen Ginsberg, Montreal 1989 Q & A - 9) ("Holy Ghost on the Nod over the...
[Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Lord Chaitanya) (1486 - 1534)]AG: Okay, the formulation I finally arrived at was... [Allen reads from Planet News] -“Holy Ghost...
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Carl Solomon's Birthday
[Flyer for 1964 Carl Solomon reading at Le Metro Cafe, New York - designed & produced by Ed Sanders - from the Ed Sanders Archives]Carl Solomon's birthday today. He would have been eighty-eight....
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Allen Ginsberg, Montreal, 1969 Q & A- 10) (Kerouac)
[Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)]Q: Do you feel that the death of Jack Kerouac has taken away his image for people, young...
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