Accompanied by Peter Orlovsky and Steven Taylor and Steven Hall, he performs three pieces, beginning with “some accurate history and gossip from the New York Times – abstractions and calypso” (his”CIA Dope Calypso“). This is followed by two poems, “Punk Rock Your My Big Crybaby” and the explicit erotic, “Love Replied“.
Beats and Buddhas – the two-person show combining works by Allen with work by Gonka Gyatsu, currently up in Kingston, New York, through August 27, gets a perceptive review by Alison Spiegel in Tricycle – “Political, spiritual, and attuned to the details of everyday life, the artists—and their work—compliment each other perfectly”. Writing of Ginsberg’s photographs, she astutely observes, “the reverence Ginsberg has for his friends and his community comes through, the relationships seeming to trump whatever malaise or frustration lies in the cultural subtext”
Speaking of the Beats and Buddhism..
Anthony Hunt, one of the two co-authors of the recently-published Gary Snyder Collected Poems answers questions about the collection – here
“Rip it up and start again” – Simon Warner considers the Cut-Up, tracing its progress from Burroughs through David Bowie and onward
– and, elsewhere, noting the Connecticut-USA-based National Beat Poetry Foundation‘s “Lifetime New Generation Beat Poet Laureate”, (recently awarded to…
Johnny Depp)
– Rock and The Beat Generation – His Substack on that interface is always a lively forum.
Check it out here