Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 152


Jean Jacques Lebel’s Beat exhibit (extended in Metz) now comes to Budapest, Hungary, to the Ludwig Contemporary Art Museum (it opened just last week, and will run there until January 12). Here‘s a variety of Hungarian artists, in individual videos, extolling the Beat ethos (it’s all in Hungarian, but for those of you who speak Hungarian…) – musician and tv personality, Varga Livius, poet-rapper, Peter Zavada, poets Tibor Babiczky and Karafiath Orsolya, and DJ Erelyi “Superman” Zsolt
Lebel’s own introduction to his “jungle”, as he calls it (see above), a helpful survey of the show, (advance warning about the sound quality) is presented in English).

Did everyone see Adam Greens recent piece, “Boy Poet”, on Daniel Radcliffe, researching his part (Allen Ginsberg in “Kill Your Darlings”), in the current issue of the New Yorker?
“On a recent Thursday morning, two amateur scholars of the life and work of Allen Ginsberg” (one of them Radcliffe), Green writes, “met at the Strand bookstore on lower Broadway (NYC), to set off on a tour of the late poet’s haunts…”

Daniel Radcliffe

Radcliffe – On his first experience with  “Howl” – “As soon as I got beyond three pages, I found myself in the “What the fuck?” territory” – On his favorite English poets –  (John) Keats (“His language is so gorgeous”) (and (“Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard”) Thomas Gray. – On his own poetry-writing – “By his own reckoning”, Green writing again, “Radcliffe wrote close to a hundred poems between the age of sixteen and twenty-one, experimenting with a variety of forms – heroic couplet, terza rima, and an obscure form called pantoum – “The second and fourth lines of the first verse become the first and third lines of the second verse, and the second and fourth lines of the second verse become the first and third lines of the third verse..It’s kind of complicated!”… Radcliffe said that his work included many love poems and poems about the vagaries of celebrity, along with a sonnet..”

The article (New Yorker fact-checkers, aren’t you legendary for your exactitude?) suggests 206 East Seventh street was an address where Allen “shared an apartment with (William) Burroughs and Gregory Corso” (uh? – maybe a very young Gregory passed through, but don’t you, perhaps, mean Jack Kerouac?) 

Anselm Hollo (1934-2013

Anne WaldmanReed Bye, Ed Sanders, Simon Pettet, and his widow, Jane Dalrymple-Hollo, remember (the much-missed) Anselm Hollo in The Poetry Project Newsletter. See here and here for our posts on Anselm Hollo

Here‘s an interview with Baltimore-based writer, Katherine C Mead-Brewer, author of “The Trickster in Ginsberg“, by J.Haeske, in  Retracing Jack Kerouac

Brian Hassett continues his Naropa 1982 memories (Allen, Edie Parker, Henri Cru) on Brianland

Henry Cru 1921-1992

Here’s David Willis’ review of American Hipster the Herbert Huncke biography, in Beatdom

Dangerous Minds features the 1994 Jeremy Isaacs BBC interview with Allen that we presented and transcribed for you here. (How come no shout-outs or credits, Dangerous Minds?)

This coming Wednesday, Wednesday November 20th, in San Francisco, at City Lights, it’s the book launch for Michael McClure‘s new edition of his classic collection,  Ghost Tantras

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