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Shakespeare Weekend - 2
["Miranda - The Tempest "(1916) - by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) - oil on canvas 88 x 136 cms.)]Allen Ginsberg's class on Shakespeare's Tempest continues Student: How many syllables are there...
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Shakespeare - 3 - Ginsberg on Shakespeare continues
[H.C. Selous - Illustration from The Plays of William Shakespeare (1886)]Allen Ginsberg's analysis of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest continuesAG: Well, envy – the...
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Basic Poetics (The Douglas Tragedy & Metrics)
Continuing/picking up, after a short break, with Allen Ginsberg's "Basic Poetics" Naropa classes. In this one, (dating from June 1980), he continues his discussion of early English poetry, English...
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Basic Poetics - (Ballads continued - Two Sisters)
Allen Ginsberg lecturing on the early English Ballad tradition continuesAG: Basically a ballad is a narrative. It tells a story. It tells it fast . it might have a stop-frame or freeze-frame in it...
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Basic Poetics (Ballads - Lord Randall)
[Lord Randall - illustration by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) from Some British Ballads, 1918]AG: "Lord Randall"..what is.. has anybody read Lord Randall here? How many have read "Lord...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 266
[Allen Ginsberg in Jack Kerouac Alley, next to City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, September 1994 - Photograph by Elizabeth Mangelsdorf/ Associated Press]Countdown (less than a month now before the...
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More Shakespeare - 1
Continuing with Allen Ginsberg's August 1980 Shakespeare lectures.For earlier sections - see here,here and hereThis tape begins in media res, with Allen noting one of Shakespeare's literary sources...
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More Shakespeare - 2 (continues & concludes)
[Caliban - Charles A Buchel, 1904]Allen Ginsberg on Shakespeare's The Tempest continues (and concludes)continuing from yesterdayAG: Trinculo’s got...
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Corso and Shakespeare
An "out-take" from Allen's 1980 Shakespeare lectureAG: [in media res].. a text. Does anybody know what I’m reading?Student: (I know)AG: Well don’t say.. or, I might as well say it.. I’m going to...
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'Nanda Pivano Note
[Fernanda Pivano and Allen Ginsberg] Following a little detour on Shakespeare and Gregory Corso, Allen has a brief reminder for his 1980 Naropa "Rotating Shakespeare"...
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Gregory Corso Reads "Poets Hitchhiking On A Highway"
[Gregory Corso (1930-2001)]GC: Now there's a story about this one, though. (Allen) Ginsberg and I were going to see Henry Miller, and we were in…. this was in (19)56, and we were going to see Henry...
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Gregory Corso on Lost And Found
[Gregory Corso teaching at Naropa - Photograph by Rachael Homer]We've mentioned it beforebut wanted to mention it again - the new book/booklets by Gregory Corso (two short...
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Lospecchio Ginsberg Tributes
Saluting some rare and special "limited editions" today - Bill Morgan's publishing venture, Lospecchio PressWe asked Bill to look back on this venture and he generously provided the context:"The whole...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 267
[Allen Ginsberg in 1968]Noted in passing, and with sadness, the death, earlier this week (April 30), of the noted pioneering peace activist, Father...
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Allen Ginsberg and Ishmael Reed 1974 at The Library of Congress
[Ishmael Reed]We've already noted the video of Allen reading in 1988 at theLibrary of Congress (see here), but here's an earlier (audio)...
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Gary Snyder's Birthday
[Gary Snyder]Published today by Counterpoint Press on the occasion of his eighty-sixth birthday, Gary Snyder's new book, The Great Clod - Notes and Memoirs on Nature and History in East Asia.As the...
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Basic Poetics - Ballads (Edward, Edward)
[ Jim Malcolm and the Old Blind Dogs sings "Edward, Edward"]continuing with Allen's 1980 "Basic Poetics" class and the old English (Scottish) balladsAG: The next...
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Basic Poetics - Ballads (Twa Corbies)
["Twa Corbies" - illustration by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) from Some British Ballads, 1918]AG: (We'll) zap on (next) to "The Three Ravens" (on page 88) and the "Two Corbies" [Two Crows],...
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Basic Poetics - Ballads - (Sir Patrick Spens)
Allen Ginsberg on the Ballad tradition continues"Sir Patrick Spens"is the one that has the fast jump-cut, fast freeze-frames and jump-cuts - "The King sits in Dunfermline town/Drinking the blood-red...
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Basic Poetics (Bob Dylan and the Ballads)
Allen continues his discussion of the English ballad, "Sir Patrick Spens"AG: From the conversation, you know, the sailors' complaining in stanza seven - "I fear, I fear, my Master dear/That we will...
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