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Studs Terkel 1959 Radio Interview - Part 1
[Studs Terkel with Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky,WFMT radio studio, Chicago, 1959]Studs Terkel: What did you say about Howard Johnson’s?Gregory Corso: Well, you know, like,...
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Studs Terkel 1959 Radio Interview - Part 2
[Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg, 1959]continuing from yesterday- the Studs Terkel interviewStuds Terkel: : Question, question. Anybody can answer...
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Studs Terkel 1959 Radio Interview - part 3 (Poem Rocket)
[Allen Ginsberg - "Poem Rocket" (original ms - first page)]Studs Terkel's 1959 Chicago radio interview with Allen Ginsberg,Gregory Corso and...
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Studs Terkel 1959 Radio Interview - Part 4
[Peter Orlovsky - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg]courtesy the ever-extraordinary PennSoundStuds Terkel interview continues . For earlier segments see here,hereand here...
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Studs Terkel 1959 Radio Interview - Part 5
Studs Terkel's 1959 radio interview transcript (courtesy PennSound) continues. See previous transcripts here, here, here andhereST: While the discussion goes on in the background. I was trying to...
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Studs Terkel Radio Interview - Part 6
[Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in Water Moon Form (Shuiyue Guanyin) Liao Dynasty (907-1125), 11th Century (willow with traces of pigment, woodblock construction), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New...
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Studs Terkel Radio Interview - Part 7 (Conclusion)
[Studs Terkel (1912-2008)]The Studs Terkel Ginsberg-Corso-Orlovsky interview (courtesy PennSound), that we've been serializing this week,...
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Friday Weekly Round-Up - 285
["Self-Portrait on my Seventieth birthday in Borsolino hat and black cashmere-silk scarf from Milan & Dublin Thornproof-tweed suit, Oleg Cassini tie from Goodwill, shirt same source, kitchen windwo...
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Saturday September 17 - William Carlos Williams
[William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)]Today we celebrate William Carlos Williams birthday, born September 17, 1883 We'd like to draw your attention to...
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William Blake - The Little Black Boy
AG: Does anyone know (William) Blake's "Little Black Boy"? - with a funny similar, similar little metaphor in that. Anybody here know that? Does everybody here know "Little Black Boy"? Anyone not? Who...
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Bunting & Campion - Follow Thy Sun..
AG: ...but anyway, getting back to (Thomas) Campion (and) (Basil) Bunting's vocalization of "Follow Thy Sun…. " - What page is that (in the (Norton) anthology)? Two-twenty-five again? [Allen, turning...
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Campion's Rose-Cheek'd Laura - 1
AG: Let's see what else there is? The really great one for that I always thought was.. on (page) two-two-seven..Rose-cheek'd Laura - two-two-seven Student; All the other books spell Laura with a "w"...
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Campion's Rose-Cheek'd Laura - 2
["Rose-cheek'd Laura, come/Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's/Silent music.." (Thomas Campion)]AG: (Basil) Bunting would probably doit [Campion's "Rose-Cheek'd Laura"] much slower - "These...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 286
[Allen Ginsberg and his life-long partner, Peter Orlovsky, New York City, 1977 - Photograph by Gordon Ball] The Beat Generation exhibit at the Pompidou Center draws to a closewith a number of...
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Studs Terkel Interviews Allen Ginsberg and Philip Glass on WFMT, Chicago,...
[Studs Terkel][Jewel Heart Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Philip Glass, Gelek Rinpoche & Allen Ginsberg, November 17, 1989]...
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Studs Terkel Interviews Allen Ginsberg and Philip Glass on WFMT, Chicago 1990...
[Philip Glass - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg - Kiev Restaurant, NYC, 1993 - Photo c. Allen Ginsberg Estate] continuing from yesterdayST: Resuming with Allen Ginsberg and Philip Glass, poet (and)...
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1990 - Matters of General Importance
[Edvard Munch - The Scream (1893)- National Gallery, Oslo, Norway] Allen and Philip Glass's 1990 interview with Studs Terkel (seehere and here) concludes with Terkel...
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More Rose-Cheek'd Laura
["Only beauty purely loving/Knows no discord" (Thomas Campion)]Continuing with classroom discussion of Campion's "Rose-cheek'd Laura.."Rose-cheek'd Laura, comeSing thou...
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Rose-Cheek'd Laura's Centrality
[Ezra Pound, Basil Bunting, Louis Zukofsky, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore]AG: So you'll find in the twentieth-century, (Ezra) Pound, (Basil) Bunting,...
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Dowland - 1 - Weep You No More Sad Fountains
AG: So. Now then with some other music of Dowland We have a couple of (John) Dowland songs (on the tape) which are in our texts. So, to begin with, the, the one that was set to music, the "Weep You...
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