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Foggy Dew and The Miller's Daughter
Continuing with an examination of the ballad tradition (from Allen's June 1980 Naropa class) - Two English balladsAG: Then skipping up to more modern times. Ballad, as you know, goes on, to present...
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Pablo Neruda
[Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)]July 12 (1904) marks the birthday of Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes y Basoalto (known to the world as Pablo Neruda). We choose to celebrate his birthday, rather than his death-...
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Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
AG: Then there's the famous "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" - which goes to (William) Burroughs' writings and through movies all the time. You know.. Does anybody know that? [Allen begins singing the...
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Thursday July 14 (Bastille Day and Woody Guthrie's Birthday)
Bastille Day and Woody Guthrie's birthday today. We take the occasion to re-post/shine some more light on this article, that appeared, earlier this year (January 2016), by American Studies Professor...
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Today (July 15) is the official publication-date of the newly-revised Allen Ginsberg biography, Dharma Lion.Michael Schumacher's epic and well-received 1992 critical biography of Allen is being...
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William Burroughs - 1976 - 5
WSB: Someone asked at the last session what the (Raudive) tape voices had to do with poetics? - Well, everything.. Writers work with words and voices as painters work with colors. An important point...
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William Burroughs, 1976 - 6
[William S Burroughs, Lawrence, Kansas, March 1992. Photo: Allen Ginsberg]continuing from yesterdayWSB: Now to combine the tape-recorder experiments already described with Raudive’s procedure....
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
[Yevgeny Yevtushenkoin conversation with Allen Ginsberg, 1985]Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Distinguished Professor of Literature at the Henry Kendall College...
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The Wild Colonial Boy
Allen Ginsberg on the ballads continuesAG: Then, one I dug when I went to Australia. Because a lot of ruffians and criminals were sent off to Australia to settle Australia originally, there was a...
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The Streets of Laredo
More Ballads.AG: Then it gets to the American ethos, and, in this book (The Penguin Book of Ballads), I hadn't seen it before, but there's a.. one complete version of the great American ballad, which...
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Ahimsa ("Returning To The Country For A Brief Visit")
Old-one the dog stretches stiff-legged,soon he'll be underground. Spring's first fat beebuzzes yellow over the new grass and dead leavesWhat's this little brown insect walking zigzagOver the sunny...
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More gems from the Paris Pompidou Center Beat Generation show: [Wallace Berman - Untitled (Allen Ginsberg) (1960)] [[Gregory Corso - "There Is No More Street Corner" - undated...
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William Burroughs - 7 (Q & A)
Student: [in media res] ….maybe something like that, and then… I was given sodium pentothel, and, trying to stay alert while going under, the last thing that went was my hearing. All my other senses...
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William Burroughs - 1976 - 8 (Q & A)
[William S Burroughs signing copies of The Western Landsat the Bunker, New York City, December 1987. Photo: Allen Ginsberg]William Burroughs 1976 Q & A continuing from yesterdayStudent: I read...
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Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue
AG: Then there the great ballad of Cocaine Lil (sic) (we're coming up into modern times!) - Yeah, anybody know this one? - "Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue"?Student: I've heard about four or five...
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Willie the Weeper
AG: And then there's the other, equally great, American (ballad) "Willie the Weeper". Do you know that?"Hark to the story of Willie the Weeper/Willie the Weeper was a chimney-sweeper/He had the hot...
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Sam Hall
AG: You all know -"My name it is Sam Hall…" - what is it?'My name it is Sam Hall, it is Sam Hall/"Oh, yes my name it is Sam Hall and I hate you one and all/Yes I hate you all and all goddam your eyes'?...
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Helen Adam
AG: So..then.. oh I wanted to read, from… "Willie the Weeper"... Probably she knew… Helen Adam knew… one or two ballads by Helen Adam...which is the..?…if I can find it.. .Best to have them done...
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[Ai Weiweiwith recent Ginsberg materials - Beijing, July 2016 - Photograph by Larry Warsh]Leading off this week with Ai Weiwei displaying some recent Ginsberg materials. We haven't...
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Allen Ginsberg - Charlie Rose Interview 1994
CR: When Allen Ginsberg belted the raging words and rhythms of his poem "Howl" in 1955, a generation with a new beat took hold. For five decades he'd been the poet-laureate of protest and heir-apparent...
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