A rare (rarely-seen) Ginsberg item (that didn’t meet its estimated price in their last big Beat-related auction) – If Not Forever – A Letter to Jack Kerouac (Sore Dove Press, San Francisco, 2008) – went up again on the auction block at the PBA Galleries in San Francisco yesterday (alongside a number of other Ginsberg and Beat-related pieces, the residue, second culling, (third culling, actually) from Rick Synchev’s fabled “Beats, Counter-Culture, and the Avant-Garde” collection.
A couple more highlights – (likewise from Sore Dove, 2011), Poem (“Prophecy” (“Prophecy if I shall find/What I miss..”) (first publication, with original art by Soheyl Dahl)
a miscellaneous collection of Ginsberg books
& Bill Morgan (and Bob Rosenthal‘s) hommage volume (from 1986) Best Minds
On Wednesday in Berkeley at Mrs Dalloway’s bookstore, poet and actor, Ian Hirsch recited all of Howl Part 1 from memory.
Speaking of San Francisco, here’s Allen Ginsberg performing in San Francisco in November of 1981 (alongside Marc Olmsted, Dan Rielly, Gary Schwantes, Bruce Slesinger and Tom Latta – “The Job”) – his ever-timely classic, “Birdbrain”
Tomorrow night in New York at The Stone, Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein sometime editors of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine present a B=U=R=R=O=U=G=H=S tribute.
More Burroughs NYC celebrations in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile, in the National Museum in Wales…
Nice post, Peter. Thanks for all the extensive publishing and your extraordinary effort in making all this material available and in keeping Ginsberg Nation in the know.