James Joyce‘s birthday today! We should, perhaps, celebrate the Ginsberg-Joyce connection on 16th of June but we’re celebrating him today. We’ve featured previously Allen reading from Finnegans Wake – see here – The connection is Kerouac’s Old Angel Midnight – the freewheeling inventive experimental prose (for more on the Kerouac-Joyce connection – see here)
Hear Joyce reading from Finnegans Wake and from Ulysses – here
More Joyce materials – here
The James Joyce Center, Dublin, Ireland
Allen Ginsberg in 1952 on James Joyce:
– “Joyce is great – working with basic material of thoughts, not saying anything else, but presenting typical sequence in totality.”
Allen and Peter Orlovsky made a loving pilgrimage to Joyce’s grave in the winter of 1980,
out of which came one of the tenderest of Allen’s photos:
AG reduces Joyce… With a “sort of”….. But in reality incoherent — would have been better to just have a photograph of AG at the grave