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William Burroughs, 1975 - 4 (Q & A)
[William Burroughs - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg]William Burroughs Q & A continued from yesterdayWSB: Speaking about the - where is my reference here? -...
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Basic Poetics - Ballads - (Brown Robyn's Confession)
AG: There are some other ballads I'd like to cover (because we didn't have a really good one with incest in it, or a stanza with incest), so there is "Brown Robyn" - (the) famous series, (the) "Brown...
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Basic Poetics - Ballads - (The Wee Wee Man)
["The Wee Wee Man - Vernon Hill - detail from illustrations toBallads Weird and Wonderful (1912)] AG: Then there's another one that had a very… a ballad called "The Wee Wee Man", that had...
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Ferlinghetti on Ginsberg & Blake et al
A brief respite from the ballads today (but more song!) - and more anon! - one recent You Tube-posted-video that we missed (from a few weeks back, from April of this year) - spry nonagenarian...
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1969 - Allen Ginsberg Wins His Case in Miami
A little bit of history, brought to us, courtesy of the Lyn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Picture Archives. In 1969, at a reading with his father, Louis Ginsberg, in Miami's Marine Stadium,...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 273
[Bernard Plossu - Mexique, Le Voyage méxicain, 1966 © Bernard Plossu]Opening this week in Paris at the Centre Pompidou, another big Beat exposition (see our...
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Gay Pride Weekend
Gay Pride Weekend"Enough, I've stayed up all might with these boys/And all my life enjoyed their handsome joys/I came with many companions to this Dawn/Now I am tired and must set my pen down/Reader,...
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Basic Poetics - Ballads - (Harpkin & Fin & The Fause Knight Upon The Road)
["The False Knight on the Road - illustration by Charles Vess]AG: And then there is an early version of rapping, and capping, and styling out, and the dirty dozens, between “Harpkin” and “Fin” and the...
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Basic Poetics - Ballads - (Alison Gross)
[Vittore Carpaccio (1455-1526) - San Giorgio e il drago (St.George and the Dragon)c.1502-08, at theScuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice][Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516) - St. George and the...
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More Ballads (Thomas the Rhymer & Tam Lin)
["Under the Eildon tree Thomas met the Lady" - "illustration by Katherine Cameron from Thomas the Rhymer (retold by Mary MacGregor, 1908)]AG: "Thomas the Rhymer" is a very famous one. The first line...
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More Ballads - (Willy O' Winsbury)
[from Sam Hester's cartoon illustration of the ballad, Willy O' Winsbury]AG: "Willie o' Winsbury"..has some interest ..Oh, I like that, because there was some little flash.. In all these ballads,...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 274
We've featured Seth Brigham's photos before (for example,here). The images above are taken from his epic (and, by his own account, literally, manic) documentation of the Beats and Rebel...
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William Burroughs 1976 - 1
[William S Burroughs (1914-1997)]We continue with transcriptions of William Burroughs' Naropa lecturesSee earlier segments here,here, here...
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William Burroughs, 1976 - 2 (Raudive)
[Konstantīns Raudive (1909-1974)]William Burroughs lecture from yesterday continuesWSB: Now to consider Raudive's experimental procedure. The experiments were carried out...
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(Monday July 4) - America
AMERICAAmerica I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. I can’t stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself...
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More Ballads (The Duke of Grafton & Johnie Cock)
We've been featuring this past couple of months, Allen on the classic Scottish and English anonymous lyric ballads. We'll continue with just a few more. This transcript is taken (continuing) from his...
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More Ballads - The Demon Lover (The House Carpenter)
["The Demon Lover"- Illustration by Vernon Hill from Richard Chope's Ballads Weird and Wonderful (1912)]"The Demon Lover" - that's a famous notion - the idea of a demon lover - Have you ever...
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In Paris, in the Beaubourg, the Beat Generation show continues - all summer it continues (the show closes on October 3rd). See here (en anglais) a video tour conducted for Blouin ArtInfoby two of the...
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William Burroughs, 1976 - 3 (Q & A) - 1
William Burroughs Q and A (following up from last weekend's postings here and here)Student: When you did those cut-up techniques with the newspapers and articles and stuff like that, did you just,...
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William Burroughs, 1976 - 4 (Q & A) - 2
[William Burroughs (1914-1997) photographed by Allen Ginsberg]William Burroughs 1976 Q & A (continuing from yesterday)WSB: Are we in a go condition here? yes?Student: Have you ever had any,...
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