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November 19, 2018
Allen Ginsberg on William Blake’s poem “The French Revolution”, continues
AG: Okay, now to the poem. So you get the idea. ((S. Foster Damon) also says (that) Blake had to make up the details of Louis’s council[…]
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November 17, 2018
“Allen Ginsberg: What attracts you as a poet to movies? What do you look for?
Bob Dylan: To shift my consciousness somewhere – hopefully to a place that applies to my own personal experience. I want to be entertained. If I see a movie that really moves me around I’m totally astounded.[…]
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November 16, 2018
Don’t Hide The Madness – read David S Wills’ “Angry Young Men Become Nice Old Men’, his review of the Ginsberg-Burroughs book on Beatdom – here
Allen Ginsberg photographer, the UK-based Far Out magazine. features[…]
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November 15, 2018
Allen Ginsberg on the French Revolution (continued from yesterday)
AG: So then on July 8th, nine days later, after the mercenaries had surrounded Paris and Versailles at the order of the king, the commons voted to tell the king to get rid of the soldiers – to send them back where they[…]
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November 14, 2018
AG: The events covered by Blake’s “French Revolution” may be summarized briefly from history, according to Erdman. The three estates – that is the king, the priests, and the commons – convened on[…]
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November 13, 2018
Ginsberg on William Blake continues
AG: Let’s see. What else? In his notebook of 1798, (in the) marginalia, there’s a portrait-like drawing of a face of Paine‘s and the note written “Well done, Paine.” He may have gone to the revolutionary[…]
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November 12, 2018
Allen Ginsberg continues on the influence of Blake’s “The French Revolution” on his poetry
AG: Another version, a couple of years later, directly inspired by the (William Blake’s) “French Revolution”, is the first poem[…]
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November 10, 2018
There have been a number of recent Beat books of late and our imprimatur of “essential reading” might seem a little easily dispensed and perfunctory – but no, not for this one, not so. This one is essential reading. Bob Rosenthal’s Straight Around Allen – On The Business of Being Allen[…]
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November 9, 2018
November 9th – Robert Frank‘s birthday, his 94th birthday
We draw your attention to previous Robert Frank birthday postings here on the Allen Ginsberg Project – here, here, here, here and here
Don’t Hide The Madness – the William[…]
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November 8, 2018
continuing from here
AG: “Einstein alive was mocked for his heavenly politics.” – (At the end of his life Einstein got worried about the atom bomb and tried to get into politics quite heavily (with) celestial notions of the dangers. And immediately Time magazine and the wits of the newspapers of the[…]
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