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Jim Carroll workshop continues - 4
Jim Carroll workshop continues - see here, here andhere JC: I mean, that just has..you know. Like, I mentioned before about Henry Miller - the one book.. when they ask(ed) me what books people should...
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Dowland Performance ("Weep ye no more, sad fountains")
Transcription of Allen's "Basic Poetics" class, from 1980 at Naropa, continues. The previous tape (tape 9 of 35) is missing and this tape comes in (towards the end of a class) with an in-class...
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John Dowland/Basil Bunting
[John Dowland (1563-1626)]Allen Ginsberg's January 1980 Basic Poetics class continues (in preparation for future notes on John Dowland) AG; Apparently, I have.. the “Fine...
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Campion's Prosody
Allen Ginsberg's January 1980 Naropa class on Basic Poetics continues with transcription of one-on-one conversation that appears to take place after the formal end of the class AG: Pat (sic), did you...
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Naropa Classroom Conversations
[Lyke Wake (in North Yorkshire)]Minor matters today. More one-on-one post-class discussion. Allen makes arrangements.AG: [to Student]...
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[Allen Ginsberg working late] [Allen Ginsberg's Desk - Drawing by Allen Ginsberg]The second-part of an in-depth interview with Michael Horowitz, Timothy...
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Jim Carroll Workshop - 5 (Patti Smith)
[Patti Smith and Jim Carroll c 1969 - Photograph by Wren D"Antonio]Jim Carroll's June 30, 1986 Naropa Poetics and Music Workshop contimues - see previous segments -...
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Jim Carroll workshop - continues - 6
[Sherlock Holmes- illustration by Sidney Paget] transcription of Jim Carroll's 1986 Naropa workshop continuesJC: Now I'm going to play this..(JC: here,...
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Charlie Parker's Birthday
Charlie Parker's birthday today. We salute,as before, on The Allen Ginsberg Project, "the creator of the cool sound, the most modern of all horn men…" Bird-fanciers (ornithologists) have plenty to be...
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Robert Crumb's Birthday
It's Robert Crumb's Birthday. He turns 73 today. Happy Birthday, Robert! [Robert Crumb - Self-Portrait (1982)]R. Crumb on Allen Ginsberg: Allen...
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Charles Reznikoffs Birthday
[Charles Reznikoff - Photograph by Abraham Ravett]It's Charles Reznikoff's birthday. For more Charles Reznikoff postings on the Allen Ginsberg Project - see...
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Anselm Hollo - The Tortoise of History
So pleased to announce this - a posthumous volume of poems by Anselm Hollo "In this posthumous collection, avant-garde poet Anselm Hollo displays his spare, sly lyrical greatness. The poems are...
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Edson cemetry, Lowell, Mass. The exact location. Bob Dylan and Allen visiting Jack Kerouac's grave. We've featured Bob Egan's conceptual recreations - Popspots - before - here. Here's his re-staging...
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Jim Carroll Workshop - 7 (American Express and Shape Shifter)
[Australian costume-designer Lizzy Gardiner at the Oscars in 1994 with her American Express Gold Cards dress]Jim Carroll's songwriting workshop continuesSee here. here, here, here here, and hereJC: It...
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Jim Carroll Workshop - 8 - Q & A (Power Chords)
[Allen Ginsberg and Jim Carroll from The Love Book by Rob Rosenheck]Continuing with Jim Carroll's June 30 1986 Naropa Poetics and Music class, we now turn to the Q &...
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Jim Carroll Workshop Q & A - 9 ( Lou Reed) - (Conclusion)
[Jim Carroll (1949-2009)]We've been running these past week's transcription of Jim Carroll's 1986 Naropa workshop (see most recently...
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Basil Bunting continued - (Bunting reads Campion)
[Basil Bunting (1900-1985) [Thomas Campion (1567-1620)]A fresh tape...
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Basil Bunting Reads Campion - 2
[Basil Bunting - Photographed by Jonathan Williams]Basil Bunting can be heard again on tape, reading from Campion.WHEN thou must home to shades of underground,And...
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Campion - "Follow Thy Fair Sun…"
[Thomas Campion (1567-1620)]AG: So the next one that he (Thomas Campion) has is "Follow Thy.. Sun Unhappy Shadow" (Norton (anthology) page 225, it's...
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[Allen Ruppersberg - from The Singing Posters - Allen Ginsberg's Howl (Part 1 & 2) (2003) (detail) -- from the work included in the exhibition Beat Generation - New York, San Francisco, Parisat the...
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